A bride-to-be who was told she had terminal cancer claims a revolutionary aerosol spray is keeping her alive.
Amelia Page discovered she had aggressive stomach cancer in January, shortly after celebrating her 30th birthday.
Doctors gave the former teaching assistant just months to live, warning the disease had spread to her ovaries, bowel, pelvis and kidneys.
In the hope of finding a cure Ms Page is now enrolled in a trial of a treatment which sprays chemotherapy drugs directly onto the cancer using keyhole surgery. She is receiving this treatment alongside traditional chemo.
And now, Ms Page claims she is 'not as riddled with it' and surgeons hope they may eventually be able to remove her disease.
Amelia Page discovered she had aggressive stomach cancer in January, shortly after celebrating her 30th birthday (pictured with her fiancé Luke)
Doctors gave the former teaching assistant months to live, warning the disease had spread to her ovaries, bowel, pelvis and kidneys (pictured with her newborn niece recently)
Ms Page told the Daily Post: 'Everything seems to be going really well, which is a little bit different to what I was originally told.
'Chemotherapy goes through your bloodstream but with this, they spray the cancer with an aerosol through keyhole surgery.
'They've been taking images of my insides and you can see the difference from when I first started to now. My ovaries are less swollen and the cancer has shrunk in size.'
She said 'everything is going in the right direction', adding: 'I'm not as riddled with it now as I was when I was first diagnosed.
'They're really pleased with how it's going and they said because I'm responding so well to it that I can keep going with it.'
Ms Page, who lived in Dubai until recently, said: 'There is no end date at the moment. It all depends on so many different factors.
Weeks after her diagnosis, Ms Page's then-boyfriend Luke Skinnader proposed on Llanddona beach, Anglesey
Ms Page told the Daily Post: 'Everything seems to be going really well, which is a little bit different to what I was originally told' (pictured in hospital with Luke)
The pair, who originally had plans to tie the knot in Las Vegas, will marry in Donegal in Ireland in September (pictured together)
'But if it keeps going the way it's going now, the cancer will continue to get smaller and smaller and then hopefully, they'll be able to remove what's left.'
Ms Page returned to the UK to visit her family in Gaerwen, Anglesey for Christmas when test results from her doctor in Dubai came back.
The results revealed she had ovarian cancer, but that was secondary to the primary disease in her stomach.
She is reportedly one of only three people in the UK undergoing a trial for PIPAC – pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy.
The treatment is being given alongside regular chemotherapy she is receiving at Ysbyty (Hospital) Gwynedd in Bangor, Wales.
The aerosol treatment does not work by inhalation. The technique was developed by researchers in Germany in 2013.
Although is it still being tested, it has shown promising results against cancers in the stomach - where the treatment is applied.
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