A brave Irish mum battling a rare form of cancer hopes to raise money to get treatment in the US.
Charlotte Costello, was diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma, a type of soft tissue sarcoma in her womb, in November last year.
The 44-year-old Sligo woman, who previously worked as teacher at Summerhill College, is on her second regime of treatments after the first one didn’t work.
Husband Jonathan said: “Charlotte is on a more intense regime at the moment to try to shrink [the tumour] and she has a couple more cycles to go with that to see if it’s working.”
Charlotte’s colleagues set up a GoFundMe page to help her with the treatment as she may have to fly to America as leiomyosarcoma is very rare.
It’s so rare that roughly six in one million women get it in the same area.
Jonathan told Extra.ie: “If this treatment she’s on doesn’t work, we want to go over to the States.
“We’ve already emailed a hospital in New York and we’ve asked what details they want for a consultation, so we have to get stuff together from them.”
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Charlotte was initially told that she had fibroids in her womb by the doctors before they finally diagnosed her with cancer.
Jonathan added that the online fundraiser has helped her not just financially but mentally as well.
He said: “People leaving her comments and the small amounts of money, we never expected it. The comments are making it, her spirits are lifted.”
You can donate here to help Charlotte.
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