Sunday 7 May 2006

Cancer mother-of-three dies


Daily Mail 06/05/06 - Health section

Battling cancer mum Hayley Newbery has died.

The mother-of-three died in St James's Hospital in Leeds following extensive surgery in an attempt to cure her of liver and bowel tumours.

Her plight sparked a national newspaper campaign as she battled to get the wonder drug Avastin.

Last year she learnt she was two months from death unless she took Avastin to shrink her liver and bowel tumours so they could be removed.

The medication was only available privately for £50,000 until the Daily Mirror took up her struggle and launched a campaign to get the drugs on the NHS.

She endured a 10-and-a-half hour operation but died, a spokesman for the hospital said.

The family had asked for no further details to be issued, he said.