Nadia Sawalha makes heartbreaking plea for 'daughter' as cancer drug deadline closes in

Actress and TV property Nadia Sawalha is calling connected fans to assistance her rise conscionable nether £100,000 successful little than 2 days to money an entreaty that could prevention the lives of millions of women.

The Loose Women legend, 59, is 1 of 4 women - known arsenic 'The Fab Four' - calling connected NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) to alteration the NHS to rotation retired what could beryllium a game-changing crab cause for many women surviving with secondary bosom cancer.

Speaking exclusively to the Mirror connected Wednesday, a "really affectional day" for the erstwhile EastEnders actress, Nadia revealed the urgency of hitting the £150,000 fundraising people truthful she and others tin motorboat a ineligible entreaty against NICE regarding the determination to cull ENHERTU for usage connected the NHS for HER2 LOW patients. The mum-of-two besides shared her hopes earlier gathering with Health Secretary Wes Streeting aboriginal this month.

"We lone person a mates much days to scope the 150 expansive target," Nadia shared connected Wednesday, arsenic the fundraising cookware sat astatine astir £50,000. With a laugh, she added, "So we're auctioning ourselves, we're auctioning our children..." Nadia was referring to the amazing tons disposable to bid connected presently connected her Instagram page, including a accidental to triumph 2 VIP Loose Women tickets, a photograph astatine the ITV show's celebrated desk, and luncheon with The Fab Four afterwards.

Nadia's beloved person Hannah Gardner, 37, whom Nadia affectionately refers to arsenic her 'daughter', is presently receiving ENHERTU done a objective trial, which besides requires her to endure a harsher medicine arsenic portion of the protocol. Despite the advancement made with the perchance life-prolonging drug, the hold-up successful joining the proceedings meant Hannah's signifier 4 crab had the accidental to advance.

"I ever accidental she's similar my different girl - we accidental that a lot," Nadia said erstwhile discussing Hannah. "We were astatine an lawsuit the different day, and everyone was going, 'Oh, is this your daughter?'" she continued, recalling however an interrogation with a quality outlet had named Hannah arsenic her 'daughter' successful an article. "She messaged me, and she said, 'I've wholly gone. I'm successful implicit bits. I can't halt crying.' And past I was bloody crying."

Later during the conversation, Nadia mentions Hannah again arsenic she explains the interaction the run has connected galore radical - including those surviving with secondary bosom cancer. "My person Hannah astatine the infinitesimal is sick," Nadia states. "She got attraction yesterday. She's successful bed, she's acold - she's mislaid each her hairsbreadth present - and each time I've seen messages from her saying 'working connected this portion of the campaign'.

"NHS England themselves person said, 'Patient unit is besides what has to happen', and I'm similar 'OK, truthful they're dealing with treatment, they're bringing up their kids, they're often looking aft an aged parent, they're going to work, they're worrying astir finances, AND they've got to enactment unit to effort and get a cause that the world has said is simply a game-changing drug!"

The plight of thousands of women crossed England, Wales and Northern Ireland who are battling secondary bosom crab took a terrible deed erstwhile Enhertua, a cause disposable to patients similar them successful 25 different nations, including Scotland, was rejected for NHS usage by the NICE owed to its terms tag.

Despite petitions, protests, campaigns and adjacent authorities pressure, the secondary bosom crab assemblage is perpetually being rejected by NICE. Despite Scotland approving this cause and 25 different countries worldwide, patients crossed England, Wales and Northern Ireland are missing out.

In July, 25 women made a bold connection extracurricular Parliament, baring their painted chests to gully attraction to their plight. Tragically, 1 of these courageous women, Heather, passed distant from her crab conscionable days ago, underscoring the urgency of this battle. "When I deliberation backmost to erstwhile we benignant of took our tops disconnected to spell to the houses of Parliament and erstwhile we were each having our bodies painted connected a sofa, it was similar a truly benignant of joyful morning," Nadia recalled.

"There were women, immoderate with 1 boob, immoderate with none, immoderate with two, and everyone was talking and laughing, and conscionable it was celebratory almost, you know? Then. When we got to the Houses of Parliament, we were each conscionable truthful overwhelmed with emotion due to the fact that cipher wanted to instrumentality their tops disconnected - this wasn't a 'joyful present we each are, empowered women without our tops on' - this was what we had been reduced to get attraction and to beryllium heard. It was a very, precise almighty infinitesimal for each of america lasting there."

Nadia and the Enhertu campaigners are acceptable to conscionable with Health Secretary Wes Streeting connected October 23, hoping helium tin power the combat to equip the NHS with Enhertu. "We person nary thought what powerfulness [Streeting] has," Nadia says up of the meeting. "The precise crushed that NICE was invented truthful that nonstop powerfulness wasn't successful the hands of politicians.

"So NICE is decidedly an autarkic body, I think, but I'm hoping that pressure... that [Streeting] has capable powerfulness to enactment immoderate benignant of unit on. He did accidental to Hannah erstwhile helium met her astatine the studios, helium said, you know, helium doesn't similar the postcode lottery thing. When helium was younger, helium had crab himself, truthful we're hoping that he's really, you know, unfastened to proceeding however we consciousness and tin bash something. Anything. But successful the meanwhile, we are hoping to bring ineligible proceedings - truthful we're fundamentally trying everything."

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