Scots mum diagnosed with cancer three times desperate for clinical trial to prolong life
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots woman who has been diagnosed with cancer three times is hoping a clinical trial will prolong her life so she can watch her three young daughters grow up.
Helen Crawford was first diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2014 - just months after the birth of first daughter Lily, now eight.
The 39-year-old had surgery to remove a mass in her neck in August of that year but when she was pregnant with twins Robyn and Scarlett, seven, in 2015, she discovered a lump in her breast.
RAF nurse Helen, who is from Girvan but currently lives in the Lincolnshire barracks with husband Phil, had surgery weeks after her twin girls were born.After intense chemotherapy, radiotherapy and a five-year course of an estrogen suppressant Tamoxifen, Helen was informed she was in remission in December 2020.Tragically just days before Christmas 2021 Helen found out she had secondary breast cancer, also known as metastatic breast cancer, that could not be cured.The mum-of-three told the Record: "I was in hospital on my own when I found out, just days before Christmas.
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