'I didn't think anything of my back pain - then I was given 12 months to live'

Jo Bromilow, from Maghull, Merseyside, was diagnosed with signifier 4 pancreatic crab connected January 10 this twelvemonth aft she began experiencing "back pain" and a alteration successful appetite

A mum who initially dismissed her back pain and nonaccomplishment of appetite arsenic insignificant issues was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Jo Bromilow, 45, was yet fixed the devastating quality aft undergoing a CT scan pursuing her backmost twinge. Her 21-year-old daughter, Mia, said Jo didn't fishy thing superior astatine first.

"She started getting backmost ache and she couldn't devour thing but we didn't deliberation [it would be] thing similar this. Our world's been turned upside down," Mia, from Maghull, Merseyside, said.

Jo's advisor gave the pistillate a prognosis of conscionable 12 months to live. Mia described her mum arsenic her "rock", "guide", and "greatest root of love", praising her selfless quality and dedication to helping others arsenic a assemblage midwife.

According to Pancreatic Cancer UK, pancreatic crab is the deadliest communal cancer, with 80% of cases not being diagnosed until the illness has spread. Common symptoms see abdominal and backmost pain, unexplained value loss, indigestion, nonaccomplishment of appetite, changes to bowel habits, and jaundice.

Stage 4 pancreatic crab indicates that the tumour has dispersed to different organs, a process known arsenic metastasis. In Jo's case, the crab has dispersed to her liver and lymph nodes, reports the Liverpool Echo.

While doctors can't cure signifier 4 pancreatic cancer, they tin dainty it with the purpose of prolonging life, improving prime of beingness and managing symptoms. Despite being fixed a one-year prognosis, Mia says her mum, who besides has 3 different children - Jess, 25, Callum, 22 and Rosie, 10 - remains "as affirmative arsenic she tin be".

She is determined to combat the unwellness portion continuing to unrecorded arsenic usually arsenic possible. To enactment her successful this, Mia has acceptable up a JustGiving leafage for her mum, hoping the funds raised volition lend to assorted therapies and experiences to enactment her well-being alongside her treatment, and easiness the fiscal load connected the family.

As portion of the fundraiser, Mia volition undertake a 10-hour rotation connected Sunday (February 16), ascent Snowdon connected March 29 and tally a 10km contention connected May 11. Every donation, Mia says, volition "make the world of difference" and assistance the household "navigate this hard way with arsenic overmuch dignity and enactment arsenic possible."

Jo's eldest daughter, Jess, added: "My mum means the satellite to me, and it's hard to enactment into words conscionable however overmuch she has shaped my life. From having myself astatine a young property she's been the champion relation exemplary I could inquire for."

"Her strength, emotion and unwavering enactment person guided maine done each challenge, large oregon small. Now, arsenic she faces this conflict I'm reminded of however profoundly I treasure her. Every infinitesimal we stock becomes a gift, and I volition proceed to clasp connected to each second, cherishing her much than ever before. She's not conscionable my mum, but my heart."

To observe much astir the JustGiving leafage for Jo and her family, click here. For further accusation and support, ringing Pancreatic Cancer UK's enactment line, manned by specializer nurses, connected 0808 801 0707 oregon sojourn its website here: pancreaticcancer.org.uk..