Help Danielle Fight Cancer

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Danielle has Stage 4 colorectal cancer. Please help us pay for unfunded Cetuximab to slow the growth of her cancer down.

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A few weeks ago my beautiful sister Danielle received the devastating diagnosis of Colorectal cancer which has also spread to her liver. At 36 years old with a 12 year old daughter, this is the last thing that any Mother or young women wants to have to go through.

Danielle has started her chemo treatments during COVID-19 but due to the advanced nature of her cancer her oncologist has suggested a treatment plan which includes an unfunded drug called Cetuximab. At the cost of approximately $40K a year for the drug. Cetuximab gives Danielle the best shot at her cancer shrinking and staying under control. Unfortunately, Cetuximab isn’t funded in NZ and we are willing to do anything that buys her more time to spend with her daughter Luca and family and friends.

While I know it is a hard time for everyone during COVID-19 literally every dollar counts. If you would like to help and leave messages and a small donation for Danielle it would mean the world.

On behalf of our family, our heartfelt thanks for taking the time to read this page and for anybody able to contribute towards the cost of a drug that will prolong Danielle's life, enabling her to spend more time with her beautiful daughter Luca, family and friends.

Jessica Wellwood's involvement (page creator)

Danielle is my sister all funds will go towards her cancer treatment and wellbeing.

Use of funds

Any funds raised will go towards paying for Cetuximab. If any surplus funds they would be used to pay for any other treatments Danielle may need or investigating alternative treatments or making some memories with her beautiful daughter Luca and family.

This is a hard one 12 November 2021

Posted by: Danielle Wellwood

Hey all,

Coming to you live frim covid central (Auckland hospital) actually it's covid free where I am so I shouldn't spread rumours. Made it through the border which was an effing debarcle.

Anyhoo, after my last update my lovely surgeon agreed to do a liver resection. This would give me more time and a very small chance of being curative.

So today I went under, after opening me up he unfortunately found a couple more spots that didn't show up on the CT scan and after much deliberation decided it was too unsafe to operate as the liver Id have left after cutting out the cancer would not be sufficient to live on and would probably fail within 6 weeks. So no resection for me.

I am in shock still so not a lot of emotion but it's fair to say I'm devasted, after almost two years of treatments, blood tests, scans, hope, no hope hope again it's been a rollercoaster to say the least.

I'm not sure what the plan is next, will be flying home in a couple of days and meeting with Oncologist. If you ever find yourself in my situation, which I obviously hope to God you never do Prof Jonathan Koea is the loveliest man I've met so far in the medicsl world and would recommend in a heart beat.

Sorry this isnt good news and most definitely not the news I was wishing so hard for. I know the next few weeks will be hard to process but I'm not bloody giving up yet.

Thank you for all your support and messages, it means the world and keeps me going.

Will keep you posted, some people have suggested I write a blog. I have thought about it but would be pretty dark reading 😂.

Much love,

Danielle xx

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