THE mother of a teenager battling a brain tumour is facing treatment after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

For four years Dianne Jones, of Chester, has watched her teenage daughter Hannah fight the devastating disease, having epileptic fits and undergoing bouts of chemotherapy and extensive surgery.

Now the mother-of-two faces her own health battle after being diagnosed with breast cancer just before Hannah received her A-level results at Christleton High School.

Watching her brave daughter open her outstanding results on Thursday (August 18), Dianne said that the A* grade Hannah received was the ‘best news’ the family could have had at such a difficult time.

Dianne said: “When I found out I told Hannah I did not want her to worry.

“Breast cancer is a terrible disease, but when you have watched your child go through something like what Hannah has been through it does not seem as important.

“When I told her she wanted to start raising money for Breast Cancer UK, that is how focused she is, but I told her not to because compared to the brain cancer charities they get a lot of donations and publicity.

“These exam results are the best bit of news we could have imagined having. We are all so proud, she has worked so hard and is so determined. The school have been brilliant and she is just so focused.”

The 18-year-old, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour in August 2008, was delighted when she opened her envelope to see she had achieved the top A* grade in health and social care (double award) and a grade B in psychology.

Hannah, who was named Champion of Champions in the Trinity Mirror Cheshire/ScottishPower Your Champions Awards last year, is now looking forward to studying primary education at the University of Chester, while living at home to continue her treatment in Liverpool.

Dianne described the four-year course as a ‘miracle’ after doctors told Hannah, when she was diagnosed during her GCSEs, that she would never be intelligent enough to go to university.

Sainsbury’s in Boughton will hold a summer festival this bank holiday weekend (August 27-29) to raise funds for charities including Hannah’s Hannah Banana in support of brain tumour research.