I was told it was impossible. Two years later I'm still here.
I'm Laura, a single mum of six in Wales. In 2023, I was diagnosed with exceptionally advanced Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, with just weeks to live. Through my own research and cancer network, I found Professor Thomas Vogl and a treatment pathway in Frankfurt that got me to remission when I had been told in the UK that this was an impossibility.
Whilst I'm not medically qualified, I'm passionate about helping others. Three years of intensive cancer research and experience helping hundreds of people now enables me to offer consultations, signposting, practical support and a clear pathway to treatment in Germany — saving time, reducing stress and helping others avoid the pitfalls I encountered myself.
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I am not medically qualified and I do not give medical advice.
The majority of what I do is completely free.
I spend roughly six hours every day answering cancer-related comments, emails and messages across social media. Hundreds of them. None of those people pay me anything.
Alongside that I research cancer treatments and treatment possibilities for different cancers, follow specialist conferences and educational events, keep learning about interventional radiology and other approaches, and make content to help people discover treatments or questions they may not have known existed.
I care most about people facing a devastating Stage 4 diagnosis, or being told their options are running out. I know exactly what that fear feels like.
Nobody has to pay me to benefit from what I share publicly. My paid services exist only for people who want my dedicated one-to-one time, and the administration, navigation and practical support that goes with it.
I know how frightening this is, because I've been there.
In 2023 the NHS reached the point of discussing hospice and end-of-life care with me. Approximately 85% of my liver was covered in metastases, with a lung metastasis and extensive spread to my bones. My prognosis was measured in weeks.
I refused to stop looking. What I found was not a miracle and it was not a cure — it was another pathway, in another country, that nobody had told me about. Getting to it was the hardest and most frightening thing I have ever done, and I had to work almost all of it out myself.
That is why I do this. Not so that anyone copies my path, but so that nobody has to find it in the dark the way I did.
Free information first. Personalised help only if you want it.
Most of my days are spent answering people who will never pay me a penny. That is the part I care most about, and it is not going anywhere.
Information, research and signposting
Answering questions publicly every day, sharing what I learn, and pointing people towards information and possibilities they can investigate with qualified professionals.
What I share freelyMy dedicated one-to-one time
Personal consultations, the Professor Vogl referral pathway, the administration and communication, and practical navigation of Frankfurt from first appointment to treatment day.
What personalised support involvesWhat I am, and what I am not
I am not medically qualified. I do not diagnose cancer, determine treatment suitability, prescribe medication, interpret symptoms as a clinician, or guarantee outcomes. I do not replace an oncologist, a doctor, a radiologist, a psychiatrist or any other appropriately qualified medical professional.
Professor Vogl and other qualified healthcare professionals make all medical decisions. What I provide is lived experience, research, signposting, patient navigation and practical support.
People I've helped.
“I have never felt as alone as I did in the weeks before speaking to Laura. I genuinely felt I had been cut adrift to go home quietly and die. Belfast City Hospital had effectively discharged me — there are no renal cancer services in Northern Ireland. If I want to live, I have to find someone outside NI to treat me. Laura gave up her time to a complete stranger, wrote a letter to Dr Vogl on my behalf, and created a pathway I didn't know existed. She helped me consolidate my thoughts and gave me a plan when I had none. I saw this beautiful, happy, well woman on our Zoom call — and only I know what she has been through. She is an inspiration to everyone who has lost hope. Whatever happens next, I am not ready to give up my place in this world — and that is because of Laura.”
“My mum was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer with liver metastasis in January 2026. When you hear those words, your world falls apart. Finding Laura gave us something we desperately needed — hope. Laura guided us through the entire process of accessing treatment with Dr Vogl. Her referral template and direct support meant my mum had an appointment within a week of Dr Vogl's acknowledgement. She made an overwhelming process feel manageable at the most anxious time of our lives. After two TACE treatments, Dr Vogl has shrunk my mum's tumour by 3cm, the liver lesions are less active, and he's optimistic. Without Laura, my mum would be another NHS statistic. She quite literally changed everything.”
Optional support
If you have found my story or the information I share useful and would like to support what I do, you can make an entirely optional donation to my GoFundMe.
The pathway that changed my own case.
Professor Thomas Vogl is a highly experienced interventional radiologist at University Hospital Frankfurt. I travelled there because the type and extent of interventional treatment he was prepared to consider was not available to me in the UK, in my circumstances.
Whether it is appropriate for anyone else is a decision for Professor Vogl and their own medical team — never mine.
A second opinion cannot promise you a different outcome.
But it may reveal an option you didn't know existed — and when you have been told you are running out of options, that can matter enormously.
I believe strongly in investigating appropriate specialist second opinions. My own second opinion changed the course of my life. But I want to be very clear about the limits of that:
- No guarantees are ever made, by me or by anyone else
- No cancer treatment is a magic bullet
- Germany is not appropriate for every patient
- Professor Vogl decides whether he believes someone is a suitable candidate for his treatment
My outcome is mine. It is not a promise that anyone else will experience the same thing.
Personalised support is entirely optional.
Everything above is free. If you would like my dedicated one-to-one time and practical help navigating the pathway, that is what my consultations are for.
I receive no commission from Professor Vogl
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas J. Vogl is a salaried professor and physician at University Hospital Frankfurt. I am not employed by, or affiliated with, Professor Vogl or the University Hospital. I receive no commission, referral fee, treatment discount, free treatment or other benefit in kind from either — and Professor Vogl receives no financial benefit from the services I provide.
Any fee paid to me is solely for my own time, research, experience, administration, patient navigation and practical support.
Most of what I share is on social media.
That is where the free information lives — and where you can ask me something without paying for anything.