15 July 2016 - A young Londoner with advanced cancer today told how he turned to crowdfunding to raise £200,000 for a potentially life-saving drug not available on the NHS.

Momenul Haque, 33, from Camden, was diagnosed with colon cancer in December 2014 after a tumour “the size of an iPhone 5” was discovered.

He received chemotherapy before and after surgery at University College Hospital but was told a year later that the cancer was growing and the NHS had run out of treatment options.

However he and his friends began fundraising for a new immunotherapy drug costing about £6,500 every three weeks, to be provided privately. To date they have raised more than £100,000 and he has been able to start treatment.

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