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Good Day,

Just a little background my brother was, diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer and it is not going well. I would like to go and visit him and his family and also my other brother. I can not afford this on my own as we have own battles everyday. 

This is part of his story:

Drury, AucklandGerhardus was diagnosed in March 2020 with Stage 3 brain cancer after 3 misdiagnoses, he had surgery to remove the 3cmx2.5cm tumour along with 30 fractions of radiation over a period of

6 weeks and 6 months of chemo with follow up MRI's every 3-4 months.

Unfortunately he was given the devastated news by his Oncologist in December 2023 that his latest MRI showed significant new growth of the tumour spreading and was told it is now grade 4 and terminal, given months to live without unfunded drug treatment.

Sadly surgery is not an option again this time.

He was offered re radiation but only 10 fractions over 10 days which he had over the Christmas period and new year.

He now urgently needs to start the unfunded immunotherapy drug called Avastin and combined chemotherapy drug called Irinotecan, this will buy him much loved time with his wife and children. The Oncologist said they had really good results in cases where the treatment was shrinking brain tumours and in other cases slowing down the growth.

Unfortunately Gerhardus has to pay in private for the treatment. The unfunded treatment has a significant cost with an estimate of $91 000.

We would immensely appreciate every bit of help to start him on the much needed Avastin and Irinotecan drugs.

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