In passing her exams, Liz Brown says she has taken something back from her cancer.
Liz Brown sat her GCSE exams in English and maths, 30 years after a cancer diagnosis impacted her schoolingLiz Brown, 47, sat English and maths at her old college in Peterborough despite having another cancer diagnosis at the start of the first Covid lockdown.After getting her exam results, she said she had "taken something back" from her cancer.
However, she was still determined to study and eventually went back to Peterborough College to do English and maths.Ms Brown said revising and retaining information was much harder as an adult and felt it was largely down to "chemo brain"."Anything I had learned at school was still there but learning it as an adult was really hard.
She achieved a grade five in maths - the highest for the foundation course she studied, and a grade eight in English.
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