A devastated mum fears she may not get to see her children grow up after being diagnosed with an incurable asbestos-related cancer. Helen Bone first made an appointment with her GP when she started suffering from pain in her abdomen.
After undergoing various tests, she was given the heartbreaking news that she had mesothelioma in August, last year. The 38-year-old started chemotherapy a month later in an attempt to shrink the cancer, Teesside Live reports.
The mum-of-two has also since been accepted onto a trial called MiST (5), which aims to find out if certain targeted drugs can treat mesothelioma that continues to grow or come back after chemotherapy. Mesothelioma is linked to asbestos, with Helen possibly exposed to the material whilst at school as a child, and working at local hospitals as an advanced critical care practitioner since she was 17.
