Teen Is Diagnosed with Aggressive Bone Cancer. Determined to Help, She Raises Nearly $70,000

A Scottish teen raised astir $70,000 for crab investigation arsenic she fights her ain conflict pinch nan disease. 

Georgie Hyslop told nan communicative of her diagnosis, continued curen and fundraising efforts on RadioTherapy’s Sunday, Aug. 17, episode, wherever she was joined by her sister Megan.

Georgie, 17, first noticed her symptoms successful December 2023, erstwhile she began experiencing limb symptom and visited a doctor. While nan expert initially thought she had a accent fracture, Georgie later underwent an MRI and CT scan, which showed that she had Ewing sarcoma. 

Mayo Clinic describes nan illness arsenic “a type of crab that originates arsenic a maturation of cells successful nan bones and nan soft insubstantial astir nan bones” that is astir communal successful young adults and children. 

Georgie underwent 14 rounds of chemotherapy and 33 rounds of radiation arsenic portion of her crab treatment. After being diagnosed, nan teen chose to donate her insubstantial to nan U.K. kindness Cancer Research, and began her fundraising mission. 

 “My main purpose is to thief others going done nan aforesaid thing,” she told nan U.K. outlet The Daily Record. 

For her fundraising efforts, Georgie won The Daily Record’s Teenager of Courage grant astatine nan paper’s Pride of Scotland Award ceremonial successful June. The arena celebrates “ordinary Scots whose acts of kindness and selfless bravery make this state great,” according to nan outlet.

"We are each really proud of Georgie, she continues to support affirmative and unrecorded life to nan fullest — she is taking portion successful a zip statement complete nan stream Clyde successful Glasgow to support Callum’s Cabin a kindness adjacent to our hearts," Georgie's mom Lynn tells PEOPLE successful a statement.

Lynn adds that nan teen "now has a target of £100,000 to raise for nan charities that person helped america done Georgies test and we person nary uncertainty that she will execute this. She's amazing."

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In her question and reply pinch The Daily Record, Lynn shared, “Her past scans were unchangeable which meant she was capable to get her cardinal statement retired and her adjacent scan is successful October."

She added, “We’re truthful proud of Georgie and Megan and if their podcast helps conscionable 1 different family going done this, it’s done its job.”