Holly Evans
Published:
10:03 AM April 28, 2021
Updated:
10:12 AM April 28, 2021
An expensive bowel cancer drug is the only hope Ellen Spicer has to prolong her life as she faces terminal illness
- Credit: Ellen Spicer
A Muswell Hill dancer has thanked supporters after crowdfunding more than £50,000 so she can afford a vital drug to help keep terminal cancer at bay.
Ellen Spicer, 34, was first diagnosed with bowel cancer four years ago. Since then, she has undergone 10 operations, including double liver surgery, lung resection and bowel surgery along with five courses of chemotherapy.
“My mum died of bowel cancer in November 2016 when she was 63,” she told the Ham&High. “Me and my siblings were checked and in February 2017, I was diagnosed with the same thing.