Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Dec 2017
The Webster family spent their life savings to save their son Matthew after rare cancer diagnosis
3 December 2017 - When David and Jennifer Webster’s son Matthew was diagnosed with a rare cancer, they didn’t think twice about spending their life savings, cashing in their superannuation and mortgaging the family home to get the treatment he needed.
After all, broke is better than heartbroken.
Back in 2014, Matthew was a 24-year-old, well-paid engineer working in Santiago, Chile when a scan revealed a mass compressing his spinal cord. He was diagnosed with angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma, or AFH, a soft tissue tumour that had spread throughout his body.
