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Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Yahoo
Epic journey in tribute to brother of Jeremy Hunt
Two friends are embarking on a journey in a classic car from the Great Wall of China to Paris in memory of the brother of former Chancellor Sir Jeremy Hunt. Surrey businessman Charlie Hunt died from spindle cell sarcoma, a rare cancer, in August 2023. His friends Ed Talbot, from Woking, and James Hall-Smith, from Marlborough, Wiltshire, set off on Saturday to navigate through 12 countries in a restored 1972 Lancia Fulvia as part of the Hero-Era Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. The pair, who are raising funds for charity Sarcoma UK, said it was their friend's "adventurous spirit and can-do attitude" that inspired them to take on the challenge. The trio had known each other since they were young men. Mr Talbot said: "Charlie's attitude in life, and while fighting this terrible disease, was only upbeat and positive. "He embraced everything life had to offer and brought a contagious energy to all he did." Mr Hall-Smith added: "He was a doer and went on a lot of expeditions himself such as climbing Machu Picchu in Peru. "He would have been very excited for us taking part in this event." The 9,319-mile (14,988km) rally crosses Asia and Europe and is expected to take six weeks. Charlie Hunt was diagnosed with sarcoma in 2020. He ran the London Marathon in 2022 with his elder brother, Jeremy, raising £22,000 for Sarcoma UK. He died in 2023, aged 53. Spindle cell sarcoma accounts for six out of every 10,000 cancer diagnoses in the UK. Kerry Reeves-Kneip, Sarcoma UK's director of fundraising and communications, said: "This challenge embodies Charlie's adventurous spirit and positive outlook that inspired all who knew him, while raising crucial funds for Sarcoma UK to advance research into rare cancers that claim too many lives too soon." Follow BBC Surrey on Facebook, on X. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@ or WhatsApp us on 08081 002250. Jeremy Hunt's younger brother dies from cancer 'One-stop' rare cancer service speeds diagnoses 'Never heard of it': Families speak out about rare cancer Sarcoma UK
BBC News
17-05-2025
- BBC News
Epic classic car journey in tribute to brother of Jeremy Hunt
Two friends are embarking on a journey in a classic car from the Great Wall of China to Paris in memory of the brother of former Chancellor Sir Jeremy businessman Charlie Hunt died from spindle cell sarcoma, a rare cancer, in August friends Ed Talbot, from Woking, and James Hall-Smith, from Marlborough, Wiltshire, set off on Saturday to navigate through 12 countries in a restored 1972 Lancia Fulvia as part of the Hero-Era Peking to Paris Motor pair, who are raising funds for charity Sarcoma UK, said it was their friend's "adventurous spirit and can-do attitude" that inspired them to take on the challenge. The trio had known each other since they were young Talbot said: "Charlie's attitude in life, and while fighting this terrible disease, was only upbeat and positive."He embraced everything life had to offer and brought a contagious energy to all he did."Mr Hall-Smith added: "He was a doer and went on a lot of expeditions himself such as climbing Machu Picchu in Peru."He would have been very excited for us taking part in this event." The 9,319-mile (14,988km) rally crosses Asia and Europe and is expected to take six Hunt was diagnosed with sarcoma in ran the London Marathon in 2022 with his elder brother, Jeremy, raising £22,000 for Sarcoma died in 2023, aged 53. Spindle cell sarcoma accounts for six out of every 10,000 cancer diagnoses in the Reeves-Kneip, Sarcoma UK's director of fundraising and communications, said: "This challenge embodies Charlie's adventurous spirit and positive outlook that inspired all who knew him, while raising crucial funds for Sarcoma UK to advance research into rare cancers that claim too many lives too soon."
Daily Mail
10-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Jayda went to hospital with pain in her pelvis. Now doctors have diagnosed the young mum with a rare cancer with less than 200 cases - and given her less than a year to live
Jayda Chamberlain went to hospital with a simple pain in her pelvis. The Sydney mum never imagined that she would be diagnosed with terminal cancer. Doctors performed a scan on the 22-year-old in March and noticed a large mass. 'They suspected ovarian cancer and when they went in, they discovered more masses, and sent them off for biopsy,' Ms Chamberlain's aunt, Maia Regner, told Daily Mail Australia on Friday. 'Within a week they had an answer and it wasn't an answer that we wanted.' Ms Chamberlain was diagnosed with Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Sarcoma, an extremely rare and aggressive form of cancer. Only about 200 cases of the variant have been reported since 1989. Without surgery, doctors said the young mum had less than a year to live - with it, they estimated two to five years. Ms Regner said it was a shock to hear that her niece had sarcoma because her brother, Jayda's uncle, had died from the same disease just over two years ago. 'Supposedly it's just bad luck,' Ms Regner said of the new diagnosis. 'We weren't remotely thinking sarcoma because we lost our brother to the same thing and we thought, what are the odds? 'We don't want to lose someone else. We really hate cancer - it's taken so much from our family already.' Ms Chamberlain's abdomen is full of tumors. One nurse described them as though 'someone had thrown scattered sand'. Doctors believe the stage four cancer had developed quickly, within the last nine months, as hospital staff would have noticed it while Ms Chamberlain was pregnant. Ms Chamberlain first had to undergo chemotherapy with the aim of shrinking the tumors to allow for surgery. But the chemo proved too aggressive. 'She's been married for just over a year and she's got a nine-month-old baby. She doesn't want to die, she wants to fight, but the chemo has absolutely destroyed her, and she's not well enough to continue chemo,' Ms Regner said. 'We're basically clutching at straws, we're desperate to save her.' The family has launched a GoFundMe with the aim of raising $120,000 to pay for Ms Chamberlain to undergo alternative treatments overseas in Mexico or Thailand. The young mum has stopped chemo and is living in Sydney with her baby, Mack, and her husband Caleb. Doctors have now deemed it too dangerous to remove her tumours through surgery. 'She just wants to be with her baby, so her thing was I want to spend as much time with my son as I can,' Ms Regner said. 'She's 22 - she shouldn't even have to be thinking about things like dying.' On Friday, the family had raised almost $43,000 towards their goal of $120,000.
