Roz Paterson: A mother in the cancer treatment campaign dies at the age of 52

A woman who has paid back thousands of pounds that have been collected to help her receive cancer treatment has died.

Roz Paterson, 52, who lives in Beauly, raised £ 320,000 from her £ 500,000 goal after learning she had only a few weeks left to live.

The mother of two, originally from Glasgow, wanted to travel to the US for Car-T Cell because her cancer was resistant to chemotherapy.

She repaid the donations after being treated in the UK.

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The money was raised through a crowdfunding campaign and online fundraising events. The actress and Hollywood filmmaker born in Inverness, Karen Gillan, was among the many people who supported the Roz campaign.

Her local community of Beauly, near Inverness, rallied to her and raised thousands of books at fundraising events.

Roz, who started treatment funded by the NHS Scotland at Kings College Hospital in London in March, died at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on Monday.

Her family is organizing a celebration of her life next week with donations for Macmillan Cancer Support and Maggie's Highlands.

Reimbursed donations

Roz, a journalist who worked for the Daily Record and was writing for Scottish Socialist Voice, as well as a blog about her cancer, was diagnosed for the first time with lymphoma cancer last summer.

NHS Scotland had initially told him that the treatment she wanted was not available in Scotland and that she was not eligible for funding to travel to the south.

With the help of friends and family – her husband Malcolm McDonald, 62, and their children Thea, 13, David, 10 – she launched a fundraising campaign to raise the necessary funds to his treatment, which uses a drug called Kymriah at Massachusetts General Hospital.

After being informed that she would be able to receive treatment in the UK, crowdfunding donations have been reimbursed.

Money from fundraising activities has been donated to Highland Hospice, Maggie's Highlands, Marie Curie, Macmillan and the Teenage Cancer Trust.