A young woman from Dublin and her family are battling cancer which is defiant to chemo is trying to raise funds to send her to Mexico to get alternative treatment. This supergirl is studying masters while fighting cancer.
27-year-old Georgie Burke was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2017 after she visited a hospital in San Francisco mourning of a pain in her stomach.
At the start, she didn’t take the pain seriously but decided to get it examined before going on vacation with mates. Afterward, doctors discovered a tumor and she was referred for a two-hour surgery to eliminate it. Because of some complexities, this turned into a nine-hour surgery.
While most of the infection was removed, some lymph joints remained and she since had to have a neck tumor eliminated.
Supergirl is Studying Masters while Fighting Cancer
After being diagnosed with cancer, she started studying masters in entrepreneurship, e-commerce, and business at University College Dublin to “try and remain positive,” her sister Michaela Burke said.
Georgie traveled to California on a bachelor’s visa after getting a degree in tourism marketing at the Dublin Institute of Technology. After her cancer diagnosis, she turned back to Dublin where she has been enduring surgery at St James’s Hospital. But, x-rays have shown failed and she has been put on oxygen and steroids.
Her family is now trying to raise funds to €80,000 to send her to Tijuana in Mexico for alternative medication.
“‘Oasis of Hope’ offers immunotherapy cancer vaccines and the expense of medication is $42,800 lowest. If further therapies are needed during medication this will higher the cost. But the Burke family is surprised by the support Georgie has received so far,” Michaela said.
“It’s unbelievable, it’s insane to think we’re such a small nation but the Irish do cooperate when people need help,” she said.
Michaela says the frightening thing about Georgie’s diagnosis is how there were no evident signs.
“I want to make people aware of how there were no physical symptoms, ovarian cancer is so threatening and we need women to be conscious of the hazards,” she said.
