Topic: Matt Long - Go Fund Me appeal
Matt Long will not be a new or strange name to music fans in the UK and around Europe; lead guitar & vocals with the award winning band Catfish as well as cutting out with his own act, Matt Long & The Revenant Ones as well as backing singer such as Alice Armstrong and is a much loved guy, on and off stage.
What you may not have known is that for the last year, Matt has been battling bowel cancer. However, despite surgery and chemo, his latest scan shows that the cancer has spread into his liver and stomach lining. His cancer team have said although there is the option of trying a different type of chemo, they don’t hold out much hope that it will cure him and is likely to at best extend his life a little.
There's a chance of a new treatment in the USA; to have a sample of the tumour sequenced which will give us the maximum amount of information on its make up, which will then show the cancer team exactly what drugs to use to damage it - to either slow it down, or there is just a small chance that they may be able to kill it. The only access to this treatment is via the private route which is going to be expensive - just the sequencing, which involves sending a sample of the tumour to the USA to a specialist lab, is a little under £3k and any drugs will apparently be about £3k a month after that. Matt's family are looking to raise any level of "fighting fund" to get treatment started.
His family have set up a Go Fund Me page to help pay for Matt’s treatment. If you can spare anything, please donate via the link below.
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