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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5060288.stm

    Now doctors can give it to children, who, like Alex have brain
tumours, under strict controls, and if all conventional treatments
have failed.

Doctors behind the new treatment have said that the problems caused in
pregnancy were due to the way the drug stopped new blood vessels being
made in the limbs.

Now these properties are being used to fight the tumour.

He had the most aggressive type of tumour, a grade four. So it was a
surprise when it went. I did not expect this.

"Mostly with tumours like this, the children are given just six to 12
months to live.

"This is a miracle."

Lorraine was amazed by the impact that thalidomide had on the tumour,
and although she knew of the terrible side-effects the drug had in the
past she felt she had to let Alex try it.