Isaac was first offered an NHS clinical trial at The Royal Marsden in Sutton, Surrey, which was tailored to the results of his genome sequencing. <\/p>\n
Genome sequencing is the laboratory technique used to determine the sequence of nucleotides or bases in a DNA molecule. <\/p>\n
According to Harriet, “for a few months, it appeared to be working, with Isaac’s tumour shrinking by 40%”.<\/p>\n
“Sadly, a few months into the trial, Isaac became unwell and deteriorated very quickly.<\/p>\n
“The tumour had spread to his spine, and he was no longer able to travel to Germany for immunotherapy.”<\/p>\n
She described how “devastating” it was to see her brother’s hopes and dreams of getting married to his childhood sweetheart and starting a family slip away, following the deterioration. <\/p>\n
Harriet said: “Being told there is nothing more they can do is the worst thing you can possibly hear.<\/p>\n
“You feel helpless, especially for my parents – when you have a child and if they have an issue, you just want to solve it, and being told there is nothing you can do, is the worst.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaac was first offered an NHS clinical trial at The Royal Marsden in Sutton, Surrey, which was tailored…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812324","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=812324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}