Cancer treatment or possible cure

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I am battling Mastectic Breast cancer and want to fight to live, can you help....

Auckland

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I am 45 yrs old and have been told by my doctors that there is nothing more they can do for me. They can try and slow the progression and try and keep the pain under control but apart from that they cant help.

Recently the cancer has spread and it is now in the C5 vertebrae in my neck. If this gets any bigger a lot of things could go wrong... loss of motion, loss of feeling, organs below my neck could be effected.

Its like having a time bomb in your neck. And your waiting for it to go off, to see what the damage is going to be....Help me please get rid of this bomb

All funding will be used for treatment overseas. "I have no more options left in NZ. My last hope is being lucky enough to have been offered treatment at the Hope4Cancer Clinic in San Diego and I am raising $70,000NZD to make this happen".

This cost includes my airfares, accommodation and treatment for six weeks

Annalisa Lawford's involvement (page creator)

When people look at me, they see the outside, they don't see the tumors in my bones, they don't feel the constant pain that I am in...

Its hard for people to see me and say "oh yeah she looks sick she needs help" because on the outside I look normal...on the inside my bones are getting weaker. I have already had two fractures and If my neck breaks from the bones being week, then that will be the end...

I want to live long enough to see my son find a partner and get married, to hold my first grandchild and if Im lucky to hold my second.

Latest update

good news 27 June 2015

So I can at least stop worrying about the lump...apparently its a normal lump?...and nothing I should be worried about.

Im still trying to raise the money needed so that I can go overseas and get the treatment needed...hopefully it will all come together soon

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