Perth mum who has been battling terminal cancer for four years has started a fundraiser to help her buy the drug that is keeping her alive.
Karen High was diagnosed with bowel cancer in August 2017.She had initially been told she had an ovarian cyst, but further scans revealed the heartbreaking news.A month later she was told the only option was palliative chemotherapy as the disease had spread to her abdomen.
She was also told the prognosis was often to live for less than a year. Karen (55) did eventually go under the knife to remove part of the tumour but some of the cancer remained.However, Karen discovered a drug called Avastin, which is used to treat a number of cancers.It is not freely available on the NHS for bowel cancer patients.
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