NHS<\/a> can do, with doctors saying he may only have three months to live.<\/p>\nJoe said: “I was getting pains in my leg and was up and down to walk-in centres. They told me it was sciatica but one day I found I couldn’t walk upstairs.<\/p>\n
“It wasn’t like me. I was a big gymgoer and used to love hiking up mountains in the Lake District every weekend.”<\/p>\n
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Joe Till and his wife Emma(Image: Joe Till \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n
In July 2024, Joe was given the devastating diagnosis and his treatment began. However, his spleen burst on the first day of chemotherapy, leaving him needing emergency surgery and a week in intensive care before he spent four months recovering in Blackpool Victoria Hospital.<\/p>\n
Joe said: “I then started to get pains in my arms. They did more tests and I was told there was no cancer.<\/p>\n
“They referred me to a neurologist at Preston. After two days I’d lost all mobility from my shoulders down. My arms were like jelly and I had no strength to stand up or walk.<\/p>\n
“At the end of a three-week stay they said there was a little nodule in my neck which could be cancer.” Joe returned to chemotherapy in Blackpool and began slowly regaining movement.<\/p>\n
But just six weeks later the agonising pains returned. He said: “I knew straight away it was the same thing.<\/p>\n
“I was in Blackpool for around six weeks and eventually went home to start chemotherapy as an outpatient. Every time I did it, I couldn’t swallow or talk properly. I regularly had to be on a nose feed.”<\/p>\n
Doctors then approved him for CAR-T cell therapy in Manchester, one of the most advanced treatments available and for a time, he seemed to have improved as he began training his legs again at home with help from his wife.<\/p>\n
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Joe in hospital(Image: Joe Till \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n
Tragically, this was short-lived, and he soon discovered a new lump under his arm.<\/p>\n
The cancer had returned and Joe tried immunotherapy and two rounds of radiotherapy which shrank the tumour slightly. However, on February 9 he was told there was nothing more the NHS could do.<\/p>\n
He said: “They told me I had three months left to live. It flicked a switch in my head as if to say, I’m not letting this beat me. If it defeats me, the cancer must have been strong.<\/p>\n
“I’ve got a wife and four kids to support. I’ve been really open with my kids. Over the past two years they’ve been used to receiving bad news.<\/p>\n
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Joe with his family (Image: Joe Till \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n
“They took it badly to begin with but they’re resilient. They know I’m dying but I’ve got a bit better over the last few weeks. How long this is going to last, I don’t know.<\/p>\n
“It would be unfair to give me chemo now with the condition I’m in. It would wipe me out.” Joe has vowed not to give up his fight and has launched a fundraiser <\/a>to pay for additional private therapies while trying to ensure his wife and children can secure their family home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Till has been told there was nothing more doctors can do 06:37, 18 Mar 2026Updated 10:03, 18…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[847,59,102,2205,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-481982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-cancer","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-real-life","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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