Theo Burrell was among the specialists connected the Antiques Roadshow
Antiques Roadshow adept Theo Burrell has died aged 39, 4 years aft she was diagnosed with encephalon cancer.
Burrell was diagnosed successful June 2022 with a glioblastoma, a highly assertive encephalon tumour, which typically carries a beingness expectancy of 12-18 months.
The ceramics and solid expert, with Lyon & Turnbull auctioneers successful Edinburgh, joined the BBC programme successful 2018 arsenic 1 of the specialists who appraises objects brought successful by members of the public.
A connection connected Burrell's Instagram said she died peacefully connected Wednesday surrounded by her family.
It said: "She was an unthinkable idiosyncratic who fought hard for her family, friends and raising consciousness of this cruel disease.
"She saw beingness events similar her son's archetypal time astatine schoolhouse and her wedding that a small implicit 4 years agone we thought she'd ne'er see.
"The crab assemblage provided truthful overmuch comfortableness and spot to her successful her darkest moments. But astir of each it provided anticipation and I deliberation what she would privation astir of each is for different radical to find anticipation successful her story."
The TV prima from East Lothian was diagnosed with the illness astatine the property of 35 aft respective months of worsening symptoms, and aboriginal underwent treatments including life-extending surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Following her diagnosis, Burrell told BBC Scotland News however she started feeling sick astatine the extremity of 2021.
"I had 5 oregon six months of progressively worsening symptoms - headaches, sickness, problems with my vision, very, precise pressurised pains successful my head, migraines - the database went on.
"And it wasn't until I went to A&E astatine the Royal Infirmary successful Edinburgh that I was fixed the diagnosis. I had perfectly nary thought it was coming, it was a immense shock."
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Earlier this twelvemonth Burrell (centre holding box) delivered a petition calling for much encephalon crab probe to 10 Downing Street
Burrell has antecedently spoken astir experiencing "dark thoughts" and her fears that she "wouldn't spot my son's 2nd birthday".
"But I'm fortunate capable to accidental I did! And no-one tin instrumentality that distant from me," she wrote successful a caller Instagram post.
Burrell joined her hubby Alex earlier this year, saying successful a station connected societal media that it "feels truthful nice" to wed aft galore years together.
Glioblastoma is incurable and determination has been nary beforehand successful treatments for 2 decades.
Around 3,200 radical a twelvemonth are diagnosed with it successful the UK, of whom astir 160 volition unrecorded for 5 years oregon more.
'Determined and genuinely inspiring'
Burrell became a vocal advocator successful the combat against the disease, with run enactment focused connected authorities funding, amended diagnostic times, and the advancement of objective trials.
In 2023, she became a patron of Brain Tumour Research - a foundation dedicated to curing the disease.
Its main enforcement Dan Knowles said: "We are heartbroken that we person mislaid the phenomenal, determined and genuinely inspiring Theo Burrell to this devastating disease.
"She was ever precise unfastened astir her prognosis and knew from the outset her crab was terminal but she was perfectly determined to marque a quality for others.
"She perpetually inspired america with however large her bosom was and we volition proceed connected our mission, driven by everything she taught us."
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