Victoria's Fund

After three years of relentless fighting, Victoria, a 36 year old loving wife and mother to two young girls, is facing an incredibly difficult battle for her life. She was diagnosed in January 2022 with a rare and aggressive pregnancy related cancer in her uterus that had metastasised to her lungs. Her first line of chemotherapy failed, and her second line caused her health to deteriorate drastically. Fortunately, she was moved onto immunotherapy and after 10 months of treatment she finally went into remission.

Concerning symptoms arose in 2024, which after scans revealed that the cancer had returned in Victoria’s uterus once more. Victoria underwent a full hysterectomy in May as curative treatment and to avoid the cancer from spreading further. During surgery her surgeon found that the cancer had spread into her uterine wall. The hope was that as they removed the bulk of it the spread would die off and originally that was what happened until her HCG level started to rise again at the end of July. A scan shown a new tumour in her liver. Having come back after being given a less than 3% chance of recurrence the cancer had to be treated aggressively. Victoria then recommenced intensive chemotherapy to put her back into remission. A further scan shown that the tissue in her liver had grown but it was not active. For preventative measures Victoria made the decision to have her liver resected in the hope that if the tissue was removed it could then not become active.

In January on the day of pre-operative assessment nurses discovered from her blood results that Victoria had heartbreakingly relapsed for a 2nd time. Another scan showed that the tumour in her liver had not only grown but spread to her right lung and her ureter now making her cancer stage 4.

In terms of treatment her specialist team have advised that Victoria’s options are now extremely limited. Chemotherapy is not holding, only working in the interim while significantly reducing her quality of life. To make matters worse, funding for further immunotherapy, which specialists believe offers the best chance for remission unfortunately isn’t available as fifth line treatment on the NHS.

Victoria now faces the overwhelming task of raising thousands of pounds to try and save her life. Funds need to be raised to pay for at least 10 sessions of immunotherapy and follow-up treatment, with the hope of achieving remission once more. The financial strain already placed on her family due to constant treatment across the country is immense, and this new challenge is almost too much to bear.

We, Victoria’s loved ones, are launching this fundraiser in the hope that we can help raise funds towards the necessary treatment she requires to save her life and to support her family from further financial strain placed upon them during this difficult battle.

In April her friend Lea will be doing the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge with an aim of completing it in under 12 hours.

Also, in April her twin brother Michael will be running the Manchester Marathon.

And I will be doing the Cancer Race for Life in May.

With your help we can give her the fighting chance to beat this once and for all. Every donation, no matter how small would make a huge difference.

Thank you for your support.