A father who has fought four brain tumors-discovering one after developing a olive grove-but collects $ 50,000 for potentially rescue treatment in the JSC
Dan Horrocks, 33, was diagnosed with his first life -threatening tumor in August 2011 and switched to brain operation and began regular scans.
In May 2014 he was told that he had another brain tumor and required surgery and radiotherapy.
A third measure in his brain was then identified in July 2018 after Dan developed an unusual symptom and began to want olives – which he had not liked before.
This was followed by his last – a tumor in his brain and one on his back – which were noted in October.
After 14 years including radiotherapy, four brain surgeries, a spinal operation and six-month scanning, Dan is now in its ‘last rotation of dice’.
One’s father has finished almost UK treatment options and has raised $ 50,000 to go to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas to explore pioneer treatments, including genetic testing to find a personalized drug.
Dan, a senior parliamentary and metropolitan scholar Special Constable, from Batterssea London, said: “I am fully and satisfied with the amount of support and generosity we have received.
“I am very shocked and overwhelmed with how fast the money has entered.
“This may be the first step towards a new innovative treatment we can bring to the UK.
“NHS staff has all been amazing – they said they can do operations, but not much more.
“It felt a little like the end of a road and I’ve always tried to avoid it.”
Dan and his wife, Sonia Khan, 32, who works in public works, have raised over $ 62,000 so far – destroying their $ 50,000 funding goal.
Money will be spent on trips and consultations – including genetic tests in the Dan and its tumor samples – to see if a personalized treatment can be found.
Coupleifti says the most targeted radiotherapy is also available in the SH.BA
Coupleifti – who both grew up with Birmingham, the West Midlands in the United Kingdom – met and fell in love in 2010 when Dan was studying politics and international relations at Aston University and Sonia was in college.
Dan was diagnosed with his first four brain tumors after suffering exciting headache, illness and dizziness.
The GPS gave him medication to help his balance, recommended acupuncture and prescribed antidepressants.
Eventually, the double-sized golf-balloin tumor was diagnosed after a free eye test in Vision Express when optics noticed flatulence on Dan’s optical nerves.
He was in a hurry to A&E at Russells Hall Hospital subsequently hearing on the brain at the Queen Elizabeth (QEH) Hospital in Birmingham, followed by radiotherapy.
Dan said, “I am eternally grateful for that optical, that eye test saved my life – I never remove a freebie.”
Dan had to learn to stroll, talk and “think” again after surgery.
He remained with difficulty in balancing, and hearing problems on his left side and reduced the use of his left hand.
The steroids made him gain weight and caused swelling that knocked on his faith.
Despite his illness Dan graduated with a 2: 2 scale and the pair were transferred to London in 2013.
Dan was diagnosed with a second, third degree, tumor – in his brain flow after a routine scan.
All five Dan tumors have been appendemoma – rare severe tumors that usually affect children around the age of five or adults around the age of 45.
Dan said: “The masks they fit for target radiotherapy is so narrow that I can’t blow.
“I experienced panic attacks for the first time – it was terrible.”
Cancer returned to the front of his brain where emotions are processed.
She was caught by another routine scan but also Sonia and Dan noticed strange symptoms.
Dan started wanting olives – which he didn’t like before – and also loving spinach and tomatoes for breakfast.
He had a brain surgery again at the QEH and then radiotherapy at Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea.
Dan said: “After surgery for the third tumor, I saw it easier to express my emotions – I’m more empathetic and worried more easily.”
Dan adopted his Bella therapy dog, one see Tzu, now nine years old, from Batterssea Dog’s house in 2019.
Bella helps him maintain a routine because his short -term memory is damaged by radiotherapy.
Dan and Sonia were married in 2020 and had their son, Elijah in 2022.
Dan said: “He is a happy little boy and gives me a new determination to overcome this.
“The idea for him to grow up without his father is very worrying.”
Dan was diagnosed with a third phase in his brain and one in the back in October.
He had a brain surgery in November and spinal surgery in December.
The tumors are in cells that line the paths where the cerebral spinal fluid moves through the spine, and the cancer can turn anywhere into its back or brain.
He is having radiotherapy in his brain and back at Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton.
This time you will need Dan up to six months to recover.
And doctors have said that he has had the maximum radiotherapy they can safely give to NHS, and chemotherapy is likely to be 14% successful in the treatment of his tumors.
If a treatment can be found in the US Dan and Sonia will have to make funds again, they have said.
Dan says he operates in a protocol ‘ignorance is happiness’ to help him cope.
He said: “I don’t ask the doctors for a prognosis because I don’t want to know – my situation is so rare that they wouldn’t be able to tell me anyway.
“I just spend every day and I just think about these things if I need me.
“I find to have a positive attitude is the only way forward.
“Treatment that I am now putting me in three times the risk of heart attack or stroke, so borrow my favorite Churchill phrase, I have to continue to do bad.”
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