Over £155k raised for man, 21, with brain tumour

More than £155,000 has been raised for a man with an aggressive brain tumour to have private treatment.

Isaac Wilton, 21, from Coalville in Leicestershire, was diagnosed grade 4 glioblastoma after having a seizure during a workout at the gym in April.

His sister Harriet Wilton set up the fundraiser on 11 October with the aim of raising money to pay for immunotherapy treatment.

His family say they were told NHS treatments for the condition work to shrink the tumour and keep it at bay but are not curative - something Ms Wilton said was "a massively hard pills for us to swallow".

She said: "Hearing that is just kind of the worst news ever, so initially it's getting to grips with that and then after that you think surely there has to be another option and you start exploring every possible avenue."

Mr Wilton was rushed to Leicester Royal Infirmary after his seizure and underwent an urgent brain scan which detected a mass on his brain.

It was confirmed to be cancer about a month later.

"At my age you hear these stories but you don't expect them to be part of your life," Mr Wilton said.

"You think it's almost mythical, like these kinds of things that happen, especially when you're so young and you think you're healthy and you think everything's all right and then one day you're told something that just switches and it's completely changed your life."

Mr Wilton, who had been working as a trainee electrical engineer for National Grid, had surgery to debulk the tumour on 1 May, and has been received chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Immunotherapy treatment would use his tumour, which is currently frozen and being stored at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, to create a vaccine designed to train his immune system to fight back against the cancer as it regrows.

The family will also host two fundraising events at the Adult School Hall in Coalville - a coffee morning on 26 October and a quiz on 30 November.

Coalville Town FC have plans for a charity match on 10 November to support Mr Wilton.

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