A radio presenter from Merseyside has been told she has six months to live after an emotional phone call with Clatterbridge Hospital.
Cassie James, a radio presenter for Mighty FM in Southport, has endured a long battle with cancer, most recently undergoing an operation in May for leg cancer. But the mum-of-two has been given just six months to live after doctors found the cancer in her leg was still there.
Last month, during a phone call as she sat alone at home, Cassie was given the devastating news that her immunotherapy would be stopped. Since then her daughter, Stacey Wright, a designer at H&M, has flown back from Sweden where she lives with her partner; and her son Johnny Wright, a conveyancer who lives in Manchester, are with her almost all the time.
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The 60-year-old is now attempting to raise £120,000 to pay for private treatment in Israel at a specialist melanoma centre.
She told the ECHO: "I just keep thinking is it going to hurt? Is it going to be painful? What's the end going to be like? Am I going to be with my family or will I be alone? It all runs through your mind when you're thinking about what's going to happen. I just don't know and it's scary."
Cassie continued: "I got a phone call from the doctor at Clatterbridge on Wednesday, July 13 to tell me they had decided to stop my treatment. I was told that over the phone and that I had six months left to live. You can imagine how shocked I was and I live on my own. I was on my own when I found out. It was horrible."
The presenter was first diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer in August 2016. Medics also discovered a lesion in her brain which they think was a result of her breast cancer. Halfway through her breast cancer treatment she was told she also had melanoma on the sole of her foot.
Following Stereotactic Radiotherapy Surgery to the lesion in her brain, she underwent a gruelling seven rounds of chemotherapy. Cassie had to have bilateral lumpectomies and lymph nodes removed from both armpits and she also had to have a complete hysterectomy.
The melanoma on her foot was removed shortly after going through chemotherapy for her breast cancer, leaving her on crutches for over four months while she then underwent radiation therapy as part of her continued breast cancer treatment. A year after she had the foot melanoma removed she was told that she had melanoma in her groin.
Cassie underwent a groin dissection to have 10 lymph nodes removed. This left her with acute pain from lymphedema. Despite her pain and her challenges, Cassie continued to work as a volunteer radio presenter for Southport's community radio station, Mighty Radio.
Now she has had to hang up the headphones and focuses on her health battle. She is £120,000 to fund treatment at the Sheba centre in Israel which specialise in specific melanoma treatment that isn't offered in the UK.
To read more about Cassie's fight and to make a donation, click here.
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