A terminally ill mother - who kept her cancer diagnosis a secret from her toddler - has shocked doctors after her tumour was reduced by 75 per cent following alternative treatment in Mexico.
Back in October 2018, Kate Malvenan's world came crashing down after doctors broke the horrific news that the non-smoker had just six to 24 months to live following a shock lung cancer diagnosis.
The 40-year-old, who is originally from Kessingland, Suffolk, but now resides on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, said she has always taken great pride in maintaining her good health by eating nutritious foods and regularly working out at the gym - while also being a strict non-smoker.
Kate Malvenan, 40, was told she just had months left to live after she was given a shock lung cancer diagnosis last October
So when Ms Malvenan began feeling 'a little run down' a few months before her cancer diagnosis, she simply put it down to a new intense fitness regime that she had been testing out.
Then in April last year, the single mother-of-one started coughing up blood, which she claims her doctor misdiagnosed as bronchitis.
But after she began experiencing chest pains in September, she was sent for a series of scans which revealed a massive tumour growing on her lungs.
Ms Malvenan refused to accept her doctor's diagnosis and when she heard of a clinic in Mexico which offered alternative therapies she remortgaged her house to pay for it
Before: Ms Malvenan started coughing up blood and was given an x-ray which confirmed she had a massive tumour
After: Once Ms Malvenan had spent three weeks at the Hope4Cancer treatment centre in Mexico doctors were shocked that her tumour had shrunk by 75 per cent
Ms Malvenan's worst fears were confirmed a few days later on October 3, 2018, when her doctor broke the horrific news that the deadly cancer had spread.
The mum was left reeling after three different specialists told her that she would be dead in six to 24 months - but as the sole carer for her three-year-old daughter Annabelle, the determined mum knew she had to do whatever was necessary to stay alive.
After a friend told her about an alternative cancer treatment centre called 'Hope4Cancer' in Cancun, Mexico, she remortgaged her home and dug into her life savings in order to afford the £35,000 three-week program.
And following her first treatment in late October, Ms Malvenan was amazed after scans revealed that the tumour on her lung had shrunk by 75 per cent - going from the size of an apple to the size of a grape - while there is now zero traces of cancer in her lymph nodes and limited cancer in her liver.
Even though Ms Malvenan had to leave her daughter, Annabelle, behind when she went to Mexico for her treatment, she didn't tell her the real reason in order to protect her
Following her first treatment in late October, Ms Malvenan was amazed after scans revealed that the tumour on her lung had shrunk by 75 per cent - going from the size of an apple to the size of a grape - while there is now zero traces of cancer in her lymph nodes and limited cancer in her liver
Last year's diagnosis came as more of a shock because Ms Malvenan has always taken great pride in maintaining her good health by eating nutritious foods and regularly working out at the gym - while also being a strict non-smoker.
Ms Malvenan, who owns her own homeware store, said: 'A few months into 2018, I began feeling rundown. My hips, my lower back, my spine and my shoulders were all sore.
'I'd been training hard on a new fitness regime, so I put it down to that. But we now know these
