"I’m running out of options. This is a chance to save my life.”

These are the words of Charley Desson, a nursery nurse, from Chandler’s Ford who has been battling cancer since 2016.

The 24-year-old was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, an uncommon cancer that develops in the lymphatic system – a network of vessels and glands that spread throughout the body.

After six months of chemotherapy the cancer disappeared.

But only three months later, Charley relapsed.

The cancer had spread to her hip, collarbone and neck, leaving her weak and unable to work.

“The first time I was diagnosed I was scared and lost but when I relapsed I thought 'ok I'll keep going,'”Charley said.

She is currently undergoing chemotherapy but said if it does not work, as happened in the past, she will have no options but immunotherapy, which is not funded by the NHS.

The treatment will boost her body’s natural defences to fight cancer and will prepare her for a stem cell transplant.

Each dose costs £3,000 and Charley said doctors told her to prepare for eight doses.

She will have to pay them upfront and she is now asking the community to help her raise the money for the potentially life-saving treatment.

She said: “This is a bit beyond my reach. This is everything to me, it’s almost life or death. I’m not responding to chemo but immunotherapy works differently. What is not working is my immune system, it’s not recognising cancer cells and they keep growing despite chemo.The immunotherapy means I can clear this disease and I can live my life again. If it doesn’t work I don’t know what else I can try. I am running out of options.”

Due to the failure of the previous treatments, Charley has spent the past months in hospital or in bed.

“I could not work with children, I don’t have the energy and if I am not in hospital I have to lay down or sit on a chair, I can’t walk anymore,”she said.

Charley added: “The cancer is eating my collarbone. I’ve lost independence, energy but I haven’t lost faith. I just keep going for my family and my boyfriend Craig. I want to marry him, he still makes me feel beautiful, he’s amazing.”

Charley said there is still a small chance the medication she is currently on will work. If so she will not need to undergo immunotherapy and will refund all the money to the people who donated to help her.

“There’s a small chance that chemo will work and so a miracle may happen but if it doesn’t I’ll need the money upfront,”she said.

She added: “Should, by some miracle, don’t need the drug I will return all funds where possible – gofundme can electronically refund card donations – and where not possible, I will donate to various charities.”

Charley said it will be by mid-August that she will find out if she will need to undergo immunotherapy.

To donate visit www.gofundme.com/nivolumab-for-charley-desson.