A "superwoman" mum who was diagnosed with stage four cancer says she will leave "no stone unturned" as she looks for treatments all around the world to keep a promise to her daughters. "I promised my daughters I would try everything to get better - I wouldn't leave any stone unturned, so that's basically what I'm doing. I'm just trying everything I can to stay as well for as long as I can," said Martine Peel.
Martine, 49, has had to fight for her diagnosis. She first went to her GP after initially noticing she was "going back and forth to the loo more often". In March 2021 she was told she had a rare form of ovarian cancer which led to extensive palliative chemotherapy and two major surgeries but this year doctors found an inoperable tumour in her pelvis and a further cancer in a lymph node in her chest.
Her daughters Darcy, 20, and Teiya, 15, have described their mum as their "very own superwoman" and they are crowdfunding to raise £75,000 for experimental treatment in Istanbul and, if that is successful, further treatment abroad.
