Six weeks after her birth in 2006, a Burton, Derbyshire twin Liberty Rose Finn was diagnosed of nystagmus, or involuntary eye movement; and after further tests at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham, it was revealed that the condition resulted from an optic chiasm glioma - a benign growth that engulfed the nerves between Liberty’s brain and eyes, and adversely affected her vision.

As such, in October 2007, the barely ten-month-old Liberty had to undergo 18 months of chemotherapy and a concoction of drugs administered by the International Society for Paediatric Oncology.

However, after the chemotherapy had run its course and the tumor was reduced by 50 percent, Liberty, whose twin sister Destiny Mai is a healthy child, was so ill that all her treatment was stopped; despite the fact that she still risked blindness, brain damage and stunted growth in case the tumour grew back.

However, fate willed otherwise, and the now three-year-old Liberty recently stunned her parents – Carl and Dawn - as well as the medics by fighting out the tumour on her own – one year after her treatment was stopped!

Commenting on Liberty’s amazing recovery Professor Richard Grundy, of Queens Medical Centre, said: “We're delighted at the latest scan which shows even further reduction to the tumour despite being nine months post chemotherapy. Although there are still signs of sporadic areas of diseased tissue, it is extremely encouraging that the central mass of tumour is no longer present.”