Life-saving treatment fund reaches £20,000 in three days
Tracey Burke needs £90,000 to pay for the pioneering cervical cancer treatment.
A campaign to pay for a Dundee woman's cancer treatment has raised £20,000 three days since being launched.
Tracey Burke needs £90,000 to pay for pioneering immunotherapy in Germany, which she says is her last hope of beating cervical cancer.
On the fundraising online page set up by her husband, Greg Clarke, he told her story.
She was given chemotherapy, radiotherapy and brachytherapy as a treatment but after these options failed she was given a total hysterectomy to remove the remaining cancer.
However, a few months later it was discovered that the cancer was in her lymph nodes in her pelvic area on both sides.
Further radiotherapy treatment was also unsuccessful and standard treatment options have been exhausted.
The fundraising page was set up three days ago, with the couple putting up all of their own savings of £20,000 towards the treatment, and asking friends and family to help raise the other £70,000.
As well as the online fundraiser a number of fundraising events are being held in Dundee.
Mr Burke said: "I met the most wonderful woman ten years ago and we have been inseparable ever since.
"She is my wife now having got married in 2016. We were planning a long happy future together but unfortunately life had other plans.
"We are now fundraising to have her treated privately at clinic in Germany who use immunotherapy as a treatment.
"This treatment can potentially cure Tracey.
"I can't imagine life without Tracey by my side."