A father with the diagnosis of cancer was told that he has 12 months to live – after he first noticed a symptom while eating a sandwich.
Des Longstaff put Sarnie at work in the bacon and sausage when part of the snack was housed in his esophagus.
The 39-year-old garden architect was told by his doctor that he had an endoscopy before he vomited and bleed in his stool.
On Christmas Eve last year, Medici discovered a tumor of 35 centimeters in its lower esophagus.
It was later established that the stage four esophageal adenocarcinoma had also spread to its liver, which seriously limited his treatment options.
The aggressive cancer is the most common form of the esophagus in the UK and is more common in men than in women, according to cancer research. It can usually not be cured.
Unable to undergo key hole surgery, Mr Longstaff is now undergoing aggressive chemotherapy treatment and immunotherapy to train his body to respond and attack the cancer.
After he has only had 12 months to live, he wants to go to Germany for a treatment that can give him more precious time with his five -year -old son.
Des Longstaff was diagnosed with esophageal adenocarcinoma after feeling unusual symptoms when eating a bacon and sausage sandwich
Longstaff has had 12 months to live, but wants to go to Germany for new treatments to give him more precious time with his five -year -old son.
His family also investigates other treatments to help shrink the tumor, including herbal medicines, vitamins C and B12 IV infusions and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
He told Bristol Live: “The NHS only has 12 months to live.”
Mr Longstaff added that his immunotherapy treatment is 'palliative and it is to keep me comfortable, so I do not die immediately'.
His mother Tracy has picked up more than £ 32,000 via a GoFundMe page to send him to Germany for a new treatment that can give him more than five years to live.
She wrote: 'Our beloved des was recently diagnosed with advanced esophageal adenocarcinoma (T3N3MX) that is now stage 4, an aggressive and life -threatening form of cancer.
“This devastating news has shaken us to the core, but we are determined in fighting this struggle together.”
She added: “DES cannot work and will not be able to do new treatments in Germany to give the best chance of a 5 -year plus life expectancy.”
The ten-day procedure, which costs around £ 42,000, would inject its liver with a high dose of chemotherapy.
Doctors would then cut the main tumor in his esophagus of the artery and let them die for five days before they cut it out.
His stomach wall would be built up by dealing with it.
The contractor of the landscape first experienced symptoms after eating a sandwich that was submitted in his esophagus before doctors discovered a tumor
If you explain in Germany, there is no such thing as' terminal ', and adds that they have one of the best treatments there are'.
Although he says that his cancer has remained localized, there remain 'two small dots' that can turn into tumors without further intervention.
He said that the treatment was his 'only hope' to see more of his young boy, 'the apple of his eye'.
'It's my only hope to see my five -year -old boy grow up. He is the apple of my eye, “he said.
