In 2022, my world collapsed when I was diagnosed with primary bone cancer, after a year of misdiagnosis. By the time I was diagnosed with bone cancer, I had a 16cm tumour in my right humerus which had caused an extremely painful 2 fractures. My treatment involved 2 major surgeries and brutal chemotherapy under the care of incredible teams at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital Montgomery Unit and Manchester’s Christie Hospital. I had hospital admissions with neutropenic sepsis 3 times during my chemotherapy. My second surgery was a forequarter amputation - the amputation of my right arm and shoulder. It’s left me looking very different and significantly disabled. But I’m lucky to be alive and cancer free 3 years on.

Bone cancer needs kinder treatments.

Every 10 minutes somewhere another child, teenager or adult is diagnosed with this brutal disease and they face a 5-year chance of survival at little over 50%. This drops even further if the disease is discovered late and has already progressed.

The Bone Cancer Research Trust is the only charity dedicated to this disease, it is a small but national charity based in Leeds, UK. They fund ground-breaking research, life-saving awareness initiatives and provide dedicated and trustworthy information and support to patients and all their loved ones... All without any government funding. They rely 100% on people like you supporting their work through donations.

Their work has never been so crucial and vital. Figures from the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) have shown that research into primary bone cancer continues to be critically underfunded, with the main UK charities allocating just 0.02% of the £630million research investment for 2020-21 to this devastating disease.