A mum has been told she may only have two years left to live after being diagnosed with cancer for a second time.
Estelle Wignall, 27, had a tumour 'the size of a watermelon' removed when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at just 22 years old.
But now months after doctors told her there were 'no signs' of her cancer returning, the mum-of-one from Wigan received news in November 2020 that the cancer had indeed returned and spread to other parts of her body.
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The cancer spread to Estelle's lungs and pelvis, with doctors suggesting she may now only have two to three years left to live.
Six rounds of chemotherapy and two major surgeries have failed to bring Estelle back to health, and she is now desperate to travel overseas to receive alternate treatment.
Estelle, from Hindley, has launched a Go Fund Me page to help raise £15,000 so she can travel to various cancer centres in Mexico and Texas to receive her treatment.
Estelle told the Manchester Evening News: “I was first diagnosed aged just 22 after being laid on my bedroom floor in pain.
"I just could not move and I was rushed to the hospital where they first thought I had pelvic inflammatory disease.
“I went into the chemist to get my medication and just picked up a leaflet on ovarian cancer. I went home and read it and told my mum that I knew that was what I had.
"I had all the symptoms on the leaflet.
"Three months later, a scan showed that I had a large tumour, the size of a watermelon, which was then removed by the Christie in Manchester."
Estelle thought she was getting better, but four years after the surgery, the Wigan mum has received devastating news her cancer has returned.
In November 2020, Estelle attended her GP with a complaint about abdominal pain. She was referred for an emergency ultrasound scan, which revealed an irregular tumour as long as 12cm growing in her ovaries.
She was later diagnosed with ovarian cancer for the second time in just five years. The cancer has now spread to her lungs and pelvis and she has advanced disease involving her liver and lungs.
Estelle recently underwent two major surgeries to remove her left lung and her breast tissue. She is now also being treated for sepsis at Wythenshawe Hospital.
She feels her second bout with cancer could have been caught sooner had she recognised the symptoms.
Estelle told the MEN: “I don’t want anyone else to have to go through this. I knew my own body and knew that something was wrong.
“Within a few months of the first tumour being removed, I started getting all the symptoms again and just felt like something was not right.
“By the time it was diagnosed, 16 months after my first follow up appointment, it was already growing and aggressive and had spread to my lungs and pelvis.
“I was scared that I wouldn’t even make Christmas last year with my partner and little girl.
“I cannot go through aggressive chemotherapy again, and have been looking into alternative treatments abroad including low toxicity chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
“There are also trials in Texas that are not available anywhere else. I am just desperate to go somewhere else and try other options.
"I have so much fight left in me and I want to try all my options at this point, I can’t imagine life without my family.”
Estelle is fighting the battle with the support of her partner Mike and 18-month-old daughter Brooke.
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has confirmed it is aware of Estelle's case.
Donations can be made to Estelle’s Go Fund Me page here.
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