Overview

• Laura Nixon, 59, says recurrent abdominal pain was twice treated as a suspected UTI before scans led to a stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis on July 11.
• She has travelled to Germany for transarterial chemoembolization, with treatment planned in Frankfurt and Munich as part of palliative care.
• Nixon declined an NHS chemotherapy course that had been scheduled to start on August 29 after meeting an oncologist in early August.
• She reports paying about £60,000 for the private programme, funded largely by her mother's life savings, with additional personal financial strain.
• A GoFundMe set up to help with costs has raised more than £5,000, and she cites an estimated 40%–60% chance of living two years from the procedure.