Nadejah Williams a tragic cancer victim who was controversially refused for life-saving treatment has passed on. She had courageously fought for life and had series of crushing blows after she was cruelly denied specialist care for her cancer treatment.
Nadejah's devastated mother, Michelle Campbell-Cairns, had raged last night; “They killed my daughter.”
The Government’s decision to hand power on cancer care to the quango NHS England last April was blamed for the shocking way 23-year-old Nadejah was treated.
Nadejah, who appeared on Channel 4 reality show Shipwrecked in 2009, was finally given the go-ahead to have pioneering CyberKnife treatment for a rare form of colon cancer after three appeals.
The treatment – which is non-invasive and more direct than other forms of radiotherapy – was denied her for months. By the time it was finally approved it was too late – her tumours had grown too big.
Nadejah – the face of the Teenage Cancer Trust – died on Saturday.
There are three CyberKnife machines in England – at the Royal Marsden, Mount Vernon and Barts, hospitals in London – and Nadejah could have been treated within days if the funding had been agreed.
In an exclusive interview with the Mirror her distraught mother, herself a cancer care nurse, sobbed: “They killed my daughter. They killed her. They have taken everything from me… my only child, my grandchildren and my future.
“If she had the CyberKnife treatment when her consultant originally asked she would be alive today.
“It’s as simple as that. The weeks and months she was kept waiting has cost her her life.”
Nadejah was refused the CyberKnife procedure because of new cancer care rules.
- Daily Mirror
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