Mom diagnosed with incurable brain tumor after believing she had early dementia: ‘The most devastating thing’

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A mom has told how she thought she had early-onset dementia — but it turned out to be brain cancer . Tracy Kehoe, 57, found herself forgetting she had already completed tasks or conversations, as well as repeating herself, in the spring of 2025. The concerned mom-of-two, from Salford, Greater Manchester, decided to visit the doctors, worried she might be suffering from early-onset dementia. She was sent to Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, Greater Manchester, for what she believed was a