Hello world,

In September 2018 I will be going on a cycling adventure through Denmark, I will travel over 1000km in 12 days! I have been training for the past 6 months to help me complete this marathon and I am already knackered.

I am asking you to sponsor me to raise money for my friend Dan Wild-Beesley who is currently battling 2 brain tumours. Support from family, friends and the general public has allowed Dan to undergo special treatment that is not funded by the NHS. He has recently undergone surgery in Turkey and so far it has been a success but due to the aggressive nature of his tumour it is important that he continues with the treatment until the end of the year. 

Dan needs a lot of help from a lot of people to continue with his treatment in Istanbul! Can you help? Please give generously and remember...It's nice to be nice!..

Some more background on Dan's situation:

Dan was first diagnosed with a brain tumour in early 2015 when he had a seizure while driving. He was taken straight to A&E at Manchester Royal Infirmary where he was promptly given a brain scan where they found a 10cm tumour at the front of his brain. He had brain surgery and the operation was initially a success.....but unfortunately 2 years later during his 6 monthly MRI scans they found that 2 new tumours had developed. 1 at the original site where he'd initially had one and the other at the back of his head on his cerebellum right by his brain stem, making it inoperable. The main one at the front was quite a lot more aggressive, a stage 4. 

Dan's options on the NHS were unfortunately very limiting and statistically survival beyond a few years is very low. Dan and his wife Jessica decided to research alternative options and were recommended a specialist cancer clinic abroad that use a strict regime of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, heat therapy, pure IVs of vitamin B and C etc and a unique method of using glucose suppressors to starve the cancer cells of any sugar. Once the cancer cells are fully starvacious, Dan would then have a dose of "Insulin Potentiated Chemotherapy". This would mean the cancer cells would devour both the glucose and chemotherapy making it so much more targeted. They have an 80% remission rate!