Help Kathleen kick cancers butt!
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This is for my beautiful mother, Kathleen.
In 2015 Kathleen was diagnosed with breast cancer - two different types of aggressive cancer, one in each breast. The cancer had spread to her lymph nodes and bones, resulting in an excruciatingly painful cracked sternum (chest). The surgeons removed both of her breasts and the lymph nodes from her left underarm. She was also given radiotherapy on her sternum, FEC chemotherapy and was then put onto Herceptin and zoledronic acid infusions.
Until recently the cancer only spread a short distance to her back, on a couple of vertebrae. Then a couple of months ago she noticed swelling around the surgical scars on her chest. A biopsy was taken which confirmed another nodule had grown and it was resistant to the treatment being given. A scan was done to find out the extent of the spread and she was told there were nodules on her chest, in both lungs and on her liver. The only treatment offered was paclitaxel chemotherapy – this has been widely reported as a drug which can cause cancer cells to spread (please see the links below). When she advised the oncologist she did not want to undertake this treatment course because of the possible side effects she was told there was nothing else the NHS could offer her and to come back if she changed her mind.
After doing a lot of research into treatments for metastatic cancer we found The Budwig Center in Spain. This medical center uses the methodology of Dr. Joanna Budwig who is considered an expert in several fields such as pharmacology, physics and chemistry. Over the last few decades of her life she treated 2,500 people with a very high success rate. The Budwig Center is a Ministry of Health approved cancer clinic with two medical doctors, an oncologist, two Naturopaths, along with three expert therapists in Bio-Resonance, Par Bio-Magnetic harmonizing. Due to the cancer being metastatic Kathleen requires the Gold Program which costs 19,300 Euros and travel to Spain.
My mum has spent her whole life caring for other people, in her personal and professional life. She has cared for family members, young and vulnerable people, the elderly, abused women and children, disabled people – the list goes on… People that meet her always comments on how caring she is, how kind and gentle. She has been living with extremely painful bone pain and fatigue but she keeps smiling and fighting for life every day. I wish I could fight for her or take the pain away for a while. But I can’t! I can, however, try to raise the money to help her get better. She is not just my mother, she is my best friend, my mentor. She truly makes the world a better place <3
Any donation - big or small - means the world to us. As would any fundraising efforts.
Thank you for taking the time to read her story.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/07/05/chemotherapy-may-spread-cancer-trigger-aggressive-tumours-warn/
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/familyhealth/chemotherapy-may-cause-breast-cancer-to-spread-two-commonly-used-drugs-encourage-the-disease-to-develop-in-the-lungs/ar-BBREtiV?ocid=spartandhp
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/exosomes-linked-to-cancer-spread-from-chemoresistant-tumors-in-mice-65306
In 2015 Kathleen was diagnosed with breast cancer - two different types of aggressive cancer, one in each breast. The cancer had spread to her lymph nodes and bones, resulting in an excruciatingly painful cracked sternum (chest). The surgeons removed both of her breasts and the lymph nodes from her left underarm. She was also given radiotherapy on her sternum, FEC chemotherapy and was then put onto Herceptin and zoledronic acid infusions.
Until recently the cancer only spread a short distance to her back, on a couple of vertebrae. Then a couple of months ago she noticed swelling around the surgical scars on her chest. A biopsy was taken which confirmed another nodule had grown and it was resistant to the treatment being given. A scan was done to find out the extent of the spread and she was told there were nodules on her chest, in both lungs and on her liver. The only treatment offered was paclitaxel chemotherapy – this has been widely reported as a drug which can cause cancer cells to spread (please see the links below). When she advised the oncologist she did not want to undertake this treatment course because of the possible side effects she was told there was nothing else the NHS could offer her and to come back if she changed her mind.
After doing a lot of research into treatments for metastatic cancer we found The Budwig Center in Spain. This medical center uses the methodology of Dr. Joanna Budwig who is considered an expert in several fields such as pharmacology, physics and chemistry. Over the last few decades of her life she treated 2,500 people with a very high success rate. The Budwig Center is a Ministry of Health approved cancer clinic with two medical doctors, an oncologist, two Naturopaths, along with three expert therapists in Bio-Resonance, Par Bio-Magnetic harmonizing. Due to the cancer being metastatic Kathleen requires the Gold Program which costs 19,300 Euros and travel to Spain.
My mum has spent her whole life caring for other people, in her personal and professional life. She has cared for family members, young and vulnerable people, the elderly, abused women and children, disabled people – the list goes on… People that meet her always comments on how caring she is, how kind and gentle. She has been living with extremely painful bone pain and fatigue but she keeps smiling and fighting for life every day. I wish I could fight for her or take the pain away for a while. But I can’t! I can, however, try to raise the money to help her get better. She is not just my mother, she is my best friend, my mentor. She truly makes the world a better place <3
Any donation - big or small - means the world to us. As would any fundraising efforts.
Thank you for taking the time to read her story.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/07/05/chemotherapy-may-spread-cancer-trigger-aggressive-tumours-warn/
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/familyhealth/chemotherapy-may-cause-breast-cancer-to-spread-two-commonly-used-drugs-encourage-the-disease-to-develop-in-the-lungs/ar-BBREtiV?ocid=spartandhp
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/exosomes-linked-to-cancer-spread-from-chemoresistant-tumors-in-mice-65306
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