'I wanted to survive for my kids so I went abroad for treatment' Matthew Dons was 36 when he received the bombshell diagnosis of terminal colon cancer. He tells PMGallagher1 of his determination to find better treatments in Japan.
Matthew Dons with his daughter Jessica. He was not happy with treatment options in England so began researching what else could be available to him I was 36, relatively healthy, with two kids. I divide my time between Japan and the UK and was flying back to Britain to see my parents when I picked up a chest infection on the plane.
I had a gastroscopy, which is a camera in the stomach, and a colonoscopy, a camera in the other end, and they found a big tumour almost blocking my intestine. The CT scan a week later showed it had spread and was terminal. I actually felt really sorry for the GP, who had to give me the news in a five-minute appointment. It was someone I hadn’t actually seen previously so had just met him. I walked out of the surgery with tears streaming down my face but remember thinking: “That poor guy.
Mr Dons with Jessica and his son Matthew. He has been classified as having ‘no evidence of disease’ for the last three years I really wanted to live for my kids so started studying as much as I could on potential treatments, without really understanding what I was studying, going on Facebook groups for different cancer types, asking people about what treatments they had, the side effects they got and the results.
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