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WOMAN WITH TERMINAL BRAIN CANCER IS GIVEN HOPE BY TWO PLANNED FUNDRAISING EVENTS

- By COREENA FORD

A HULL woman with a terminal brain tumour who is raising money for potentially life-extending treatment has been given hope by fundraising friends and businesses.

After suffering a series of headaches and puzzling memory issues, doctors this summer delivered the devastating news that Louise Jensen had brain cancer a massive Grade 4 Glioblastoma leaving her with a life expectancy of one to two years.

One of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer, with treatment it has an average survival rate of 12 months to 18 months, while the fiveyear survival rate is around 5 per cent.

Her life upended in an instant, Louise, 40, will readily admit how she has struggled to function ever since, knowing that the aggressive tumour is also sapping her ability to stay positive.

However, her devoted partner of eight years Adam Philipson and best friend Becky Brount have been working tirelessly, bringing family, friends and supporters together in efforts to raise £80,000 the money needed to pay for pioneering treatment in Germany.

We told in October how Louise - a former operating theatre practitioner at Hull Royal Infirmary with her own business, LJ Healthcare - needs to raise the five-figure sum so that CeGat German Oncology Centre in Tübingen can create peptide vaccines, specific to her tumour.

Since then, she has completed a course of chemotherapy on the NHS and more than £29,000 has been raised through the GoFundMe campaign. That's enough to fund the first stage.

A sample of the tumour has now been be sent to the experts in Tübingen to analyse, and create the treatment, a process which takes around five months.

While it cannot cure her cancer, it could keep it at bay to give her a longer lifespan than her current, cruelly-short life expectancy.