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Welcome to my fundraising page, I'm Rob, 35 from Leeds and in 3 weeks I'll be running my first ultra marathon, a 32 miles race around Bolton Abbey, Skipton. https://racebest.com/races/bolton-abbey-trail-running-festival
I'm doing this for a great cause; to help raise money to fund the cancer treatment for my cousin Rachel.
After the birth of her second baby Rachel repeatedly went to her
GP with back pain; for 7 months she was told it was muscular and to
take paracetamol. After 3 trips to A&E with pain a locum GP
advised scans. The scans showed a tumour in the pancreas and bile
ducts, a biopsy confirmed it was cancerous and inoperable, only
palliative treatment could be offered in the UK.
Rachel could have taken the word of the oncologist as being
absolute; she could have listened to specialist nurses who advised
accepting that there was nothing more to do. She didn’t, and with
the help of family (in particular her middle sister Jayne)
researched every possible treatment and alternative. The results of
the research found effective treatments available in other countries.
Rachel Underwent a new type of treatment in Germany which has
been funded by her parents. Even at an early stage blood results
showed the tumour was shrinking and moving away from neighbouring
vital organs and to everyone's amazement after a year the tumour had
no active cancer in it and was basically just scar tissue.
Another year on and the cancer was back, it had spread to
her lymph nodes, she had ascites in her abdomen and Rachel
began preparing to fight again. Her children are one year older,
Freya has just started in reception at primary School and Will has
moved up a class in Nursery, they are such amazing kids and it
breaks my heart that they have to go through this again.
Again the NHS can offer no treatment, except palliative care.
There is, however hope, a Clinic in Germany are extremely positive
they will be able to help Rachel, by offering a new type of
treatment called Immunotherapy. Unfortunately, this time there is
not enough money left after paying for previous treatments, and
she needs our help to get lifesaving immunotherapy in Hallwang
clinic in Germany. Please give whatever you can, and if you can't,
thank you for taking the time to read this story until the end.
Thank you all so much.
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