A 51-year-old woman, who was the half-sister of a well-known actress and model, has sadly passed away.
Pandora Cooper-Key faced a long battle with cancer, spanning 24 years, before being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. She was the daughter of Esmond Cooper-Key, a nobleman, and Lady Mary Gaye Curzon. With ten siblings, she was also the half-sister of actress and model Anna Bonas.
Pandora’s battle with cancer began at age 26 when she was diagnosed with Paget’s Disease, a rare form of cancer affecting the milk duct, while living in west London. She overcame this challenge and welcomed her first child about a decade later. However, not long after giving birth, doctors discovered a rare and aggressive sarcoma in her left eye. Sarcomas are uncommon, with only a few thousand cases diagnosed annually in the UK.
After undergoing surgery to remove her tear duct, Pandora was given a grim prognosis, with doctors predicting she had only ten months to live. Despite this, she continued to fight the disease for several more years, enduring eight surgeries to remove tumors and undergoing facial reconstruction. The surgeries left her without muscles on one side of her face, and she required Botox treatments to maintain facial symmetry. In a 2021 interview with The Times, she humorously noted, “I’m the only girl in town who gets it free.”
As her condition worsened, Pandora suffered from severe seizures that left her incapacitated for days at a time. Eventually, another tumor was discovered behind her nose, following the removal of one from her cheek. Her health declined further late last year when she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor.
She explained that surgery was impossible due to the tumor’s proximity to critical blood vessels, stating, “To operate, they’d have to go through blood vessels, which is not good.”
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