Alexandra Graham - Alex is on a Journey!

My wonderful friend Alex, or Goosey as some of you may know her, has cancer. She has just been diagnosed with her 4th type of cancer and in all honesty, she has a massive battle ahead of her.

Alex is a full time working, single Mum to her 2 beautiful young children Amara (9) and Indi (4). She does her upmost to wake with a smile and pushes on through whatever is thrown at her each day with an indescribable positivity.

When Alex was 12 she was diagnosed with eye cancer, retinal blastoma which she overcame and grew into the wonderful woman she is today without looking back.

In 2022 Alex found a lump on her right breast. She was diagnosed with stage 2 grade 2 Triple Negative breast cancer. After a long 12 week wait for surgery she finally had her first mastectomy, the tumour turned out to be much larger that the surgeons had anticipated, but at least it was out. She underwent a gruelling chemo regime and then radiotherapy. Joyfully she was told she was in remission in 2023.

In on the 23rd August 2024 Alex found a lump on her left breast. It was again diagnosed as Triple Negative breast cancer, this time it’s grade 3 stage 3B. She had another long 9 week wait for her second mastectomy, during which time it was found that the tumour had grown 7.5cm. This time it was also found to be in her lymph nodes too, they hade fused together as one large mass.

Progress unfortunately slowed after her surgery and decisions by the medical team started to change from one option to another without any notable move forward to agree on a treatment plan. Whilst all of the discussions have been going on relating to treatment options Alex has developed an extremely sore rash on the side of her chest at the site of her original surgery, but was told it’s just an infection and that it would clear up. She has also had pains in her side and back since her first mastectomy in 2022 but was told that it’s just an implant that was placed at the time of her 2022 surgery and that the pain was all in her head. Finally, after another 9 weeks of appointments and meetings it was decided that Alex should start chemo for the second time. She went for some routine tests before hand during which another lump was found. A biopsy was taken and on the 15th January 2025 the results came back that she has an extremely aggressive local regional reoccurrence, an inflammatory breast cancer which has spread to the lymph nodes and pushed out to the skin at the original cancer site on her left side. This cancer is such a rare cancer that as it stands doctors don’t even know whether the chemo will even have any effect but are willing to try. The pain wasn’t just in her head and the rash wasn’t just “a rash”!

In the last 3 and a half years Alex has had 2 Triple Negative breast cancer diagnosis, the diagnosis of local cancer in her lymph nodes in 2 separate side of her chest. She also now has a rare aggressive skin cancer and is awaiting the results to her PET scan that she had on the 25th January 2025 to ensure it hasn’t spread further into her lymphatic system.

Alex has endured 2 major surgeries, countless awful rounds of chemo and radiotherapy and is now about to start all over again with more chemo and radiotherapy in an attempt to stop the cancer in her lymph nodes spreading and to shrink the skin cancer that is spreading across her chest and back down to a size so that surgery would be possible. The skin cancer is currently covering such a large area that the risk of sepsis after due to the various wound sizes is far too high for them to consider surgery yet.

We know it’s a lot to ask and that times are hard for everyone, especially at this time of the year, however we want to give Alex the best chance at beating this. All she wants is to be present for her children, to be able to love them and cherish watching them grow up. To do this she wants to be able to take some control and use alternative therapies alongside the traditional chemo route, but that has huge cost implications that as a single parent, is just completely impossible. We really hope that you could help us achieve her goal of £25,000 to allow her to purchase these therapies that will allow her to give herself the best chance of beating this awful disease once again.

Any donation will make a massive difference. Thank you all for taking the time to read this page and donate. We will of course keep you updated on all of her progress as Alex continues on the biggest fight of her life.

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