Megan treatment set to cost €820k

THE COST of treating a 4-year-old Co Cork girl for a rare cancerous brain tumour has been estimated at over €1 million though the final figure is expected to be around €820,000 following negotiations.

Megan Malone, from Kilnamartyra near Macroom, was diagnosed with a rare cancerous brain tumour last October and given just weeks to live by doctors in Ireland.

As a result, Megan and her parents, as well as the couple’s three other children, moved to New York on December 2 last where Megan had chemotherapy treatment at New York’s Presbyterian Children’s Hospital.