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Man ‘clear’ of cancer after crowd-funded treatment
A man undergoing treatment for cancer after his wife raised £400,000 to send him to the US has been given a boost by doctors who declared him clear at the first stage.
Mike Brandon, 31, and his wife Kate Robertson, 33, from Westbury-on-Trym, were left devastated after Mike’s rare form of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia returned this year following a stem cell transplant in 2014.
Kate, who had successfully campaigned for donations before, began the #donate4mike campaign which raised more than £400,000 needed for specialist treatment in Pennsylvania.
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On Monday Kate said on their campaign website: “After what can only be described as a completely agonising three months we wanted to share with you some wonderful news: Mike’s initial bone marrow biopsy test has come back clear! Prior to starting the therapy Mike’s bone marrow was almost completely made up of leukaemia cells, 28 days later there were none.
“The part played in this by the whole team at Penn Medicine, especially all on Rhoads 7, cannot be over-emphasised. We have received kindness, care and compassion beyond any expectation.
“This is a great first step showing that the T-Cell therapy is doing exactly what we hoped it would. We still have quite some distance to go in our journey, but we are currently filled with huge relief to have cleared such an enormous hurdle.
“We thank each and every one of you for getting us here. We simply couldn’t have done this without you all.”
“With love and all the gratitude in the world….”
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