BOWEL Cancer sufferer, who thought he was just having a case of food poisoning, is hoping to obtain ground-breaking treatment overseas.
Roger McAtee attributed his illness to a bad meal at a restaurant when he fell ill in October 2013.
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He needed emergency surgery two weeks later after doctors found a life-threatening cancer in his stomach.
After a year of NHS treatment for his stage four cancer, the 46-year-old is now raising £70,000 for experimental immunotherapy in Mexico with his brother Andy.
These are their GoFundMe page has reached £17,500They hope to travel to Tijuana to see the Hope4Cancer clinic.
Roger, a former volunteer for the lifeboat crew, stated to Central Recorder that he believed he had food poisoning after he vomited from a meal.
The doctor suspected that he was suffering from a hernia, but he underwent surgery to remove the tumours. The cancer has spread to his bladder and stomach, and is now incurable.
He is now at the Co Down family home.
Andy, Andy’s brother from East Lancs, said: “The toll on our family has been devastating.”