Can you help Philip Drury fight his Melanoma?

Can you help PHILIP DRURY?

We need help urgently to raise money for our Dads melanoma treatment drugs

Our amazing, kind and funny Dad, Philip Drury, was diagnosed a month ago with terminal melanoma cancer.

On 4th June 2015 he had emergency surgery to remove a tumour from beside his brain stem.

Fortunately the operation was successful but the worst news was to come. He has melanoma in his liver, lungs and left hip bone. He has been given about 6 months to live.

He has just finished radiation treatment on his brain tumour site and hip and his tumour has been tested for the gene mutation that responds to the free melanoma trial drugs. He wasn’t successful.

There are no other free melanoma drugs available.

His only option now is to pay privately for the amazing melanoma drugs that you may have read about recently in the media. Ipilumumab has a course of 4 injections and costs $150,000.

Pembrolizumab/Nivolumab is another melanoma drug that is administered every 2 weeks. It costs $15,000 per treatment. Treatment is ongoing and the results are very encouraging. These drugs taken together can shrink melanoma up to 50% and give a person extended life. These drugs will most likely be available free in a number of years and will save hundreds of lives. We are waiting for advice to decide which one he should have. Our family cannot afford this treatment, but with your help we can give him some hope.

We want our Dad to live as long as possible. He is only 63 and too young to die. We want him to be able to see our careers take off, walk us down the aisle, play with his grandchildren. If you can help him live longer please donate as little or as much as you can.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.