'I thought my daughter just had an insect bite - then just months after her 21st birthday she was dead'
Jenna Patel was enjoying life to the full and preparing to become a primary school teacher when she discovered what she believed to be an 'insect bite' on her shoulder. Just four months after her 21st birthday, she was dead from an aggressive form of cancer.
Jenna was referred to The Christie and placed on an immediate course of chemotherapy which involved daily treatment and coming home in the evening with the chemotherapy drugs attached to her. Manish was going through chemotherapy at the same time as his daughter. The surgery went well. But the tumour which was removed was much bigger than anyone had expected. As Jenna prepared for her 21st birthday early last year, she began to experience breathing difficulties and was sent for yet more scans. Devastatingly, the scans revealed the cancer had spread and was now in her lungs.
Life-saving cancer treatments are made possible by months and months of trialling, testing and learning. But monthly progress in research needs monthly donations. "The news was too much to take in knowing that her dad was only a few miles up the road also going through cancer treatment.
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