Race against time for Steven Fry

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00:00I'm off to speak with Stephen Fry who crashed his fuel tanker into a shop in Bewley

00:04and is now receiving life-saving cancer treatment.

00:09Hello, it's nice to see you again. Hi! Hi! She's smiling.

00:16Stephen found out he had a brain tumour when he crashed into the empty shop in Bewley

00:20and we've been on a journey since and we managed to fundraise £50,000 to get private treatment.

00:27A year and a half before it, I had major headaches, aluminium taste, I had numbness

00:33to the right side of the body, very drained. Eventually I had an aspirin MRI scan because

00:39I knew there was something wrong. That was booked in and within about a week later,

00:43I took a seizure behind my fuel tanker. The fundraising that we've done has been so

00:48important because brain cancer only gets 1% of funding so the treatment is basically just

00:56radiotherapy and chemotherapy and that wasn't going to shrink his tumour, it was just to

01:00stunt the growth of it which gives an estimated survival time of 14 years. Obviously everyone's

01:06different but with this new immunotherapy treatment, it basically has the ability to

01:12shrink the tumour and in some cases get rid of it altogether. So that's why it's so important

01:17for us because then he's got the same chance as anyone else to be around as long as possible

01:22to see Piper and Remy grow up. Most important thing for us, we want the girls to have their

01:26dad and him to be part of everything. I don't think I've dealt with it, I think I just buddy it

01:32but they'll be like, we're having family days out and then I'll suddenly just think, oh like

01:37you know in a couple years time maybe he won't be here. Stuff like that's really hard and then

01:42I think of all the milestones that the girls would have and I think there's a possibility

01:46that he won't be here. So yeah, it's bittersweet. I'm trying to be positive and hope that this

01:52treatment does work but yeah I guess at the back of my mind there's a possibility that it might not.

01:58They extract his cells from the blood and then they make the dentric cell injection and then

02:06they send it back over and that's when it gets injected into him and it's to help his body

02:11fight the cancer cells and then he gets that repeat after six months and then he's also been

02:17given supplements for a year, counselling. There's quite a lot that the program gives them which we

02:22didn't actually realise at the time. This treatment isn't supposed to have really any side effects

02:26like that because it's just helping your body naturally do what it should be doing and fight

02:30the cancer. So hopefully I can have more of a life for my kids than I was expecting to have

02:36due to having the brain cancer so I'm all hopeful for it all.

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