Mission to raise £70k for wife’s cancer treatment

Health: Husband’s last-ditch attempt to save woman who is his ‘whole world’

A devoted Dundee husband is on a mission to raise £70,000 for a last-ditch attempt to have his wife’s cancer treated.

Greg and Tracey Burke were busy planning their wedding and looking forward to a lifetime together when the bride-to-be was diagnosed with cervical cancer aged just 27.

Three years later, Tracey has exhausted all conventional treatment options and her last hope is to go to Germany to try a pioneering therapy – costing £90,000.

Greg, 34, said Tracey has been his “whole world” since they met 10 years ago and he is determined to do all he can to save her life.

“We were planning a long, happy future together but unfortunately life had other plans,” he said.

Greg said Tracey’s diagnosis with cervical cancer in February 2015 had been devastating for the couple but his wife had endured a series of treatments in the hope of beating it.

“She was given chemotherapy, radiotherapy and brachytherapy as a treatment but unfortunately this didn’t cure her and she was then given a total hysterectomy to remove the remaining cancer,” he said. “It is now back on her lymph nodes and further radiotherapy was unsuccessful.”

Tracey was accepted on to a trial for immunotherapy, a new treatment said to have cured some cancer patients. It uses the body’s own immune system to fight cancer by helping it to recognise and attack dangerous cells.

However numbers for the trial were cut and Tracey was removed from it.

So far a Gofundme campaign has raised just over £13,000.

Devoted: Greg aims to raise £70,000 to save Tracey’s life.