A Bishop’s Stortford woman who halted her cancer treatment when she became pregnant last year inspired her brother to run the TCS London Marathon. Paige Gouge was diagnosed with a glioblastoma (GBM) in October 2021 – the same type of aggressive brain tumour that killed her father Mark in June 2000, aged 37. The HR manager, now 27, underwent surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. She was privately funding immunotherapy treatment in Germany when she fell pregnant naturally last year – something doctors had said was unlikely to happen. She and her fiancé Taylor Allen welcomed their healthy baby …
