A single mum-of-two from Brixton diagnosed with breast cancer aged 23, has launched a marketing campaign to elevate funds for life-saving therapy after being informed her cancer had spread to her bones.
Shai Harley Green, now 24, was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2020 however after present process surgical procedure, was informed final month that the cancer had spread to her bones.
The aspiring mannequin has two sons, aged 4 and 5.
Shai’s household has launched a GoFundMe marketing campaign to elevate funds for her to obtain immunotherapy so as to help her therapy.
“We have been shocked” Liah Williams, Shai’s older sister, informed My London.
The 30-year-old mentioned: “As a household we have had a whole lot of cancer scares – our mum had [breast] cancer six to seven years in the past, we misplaced my aunt to cancer 4 years in the past.
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“When they mentioned it was her breast, we thought it was only a surgical procedure. Now they’re saying it is in her bones and in her hip.”
Liah described Shai because the ‘most constructive’ of her three different siblings and mentioned Shai has seen and is ‘grateful’ for the help for the marketing campaign, which has raised greater than £20,000 in simply two days.
Liah mentioned: “We have been very hesitant, Shai is sort of non-public however we’d like the assistance, what is going on on is extra necessary than satisfaction.”
Shai has launched a YouTube video detailing the expertise of her prognosis and therapy journey.
In it, she says she needs to elevate consciousness for younger ladies to guarantee they get checked in the event that they assume one thing is mistaken with their physique.
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Shai mentioned within the video that she was initially informed by medical doctors in 2019 {that a} lump in her breast was down to breastfeeding.
But after the lump had grown, she returned to the hospital the next yr the place she acquired a prognosis that the lump was certainly cancerous.
“We have an enormous household and an enormous help community,” sister Liah mentioned.
She added: “We’re attempting to hold life as regular for them [Shai’s children] as potential.”
The marketing campaign web page reads: “Your donations, nonetheless small, will go in the direction of supporting a younger mum see her sons’ childhood. That would imply the world to her.”
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