A YOUNG woman who lost an eye to ocular cancer has launched a desperate bid to raise £240,000 for “last chance” specialist treatment after the disease spread to her liver.

Devastated Ella Wolff, 25, went for a routine eye test in October 2018 when her vision went blurry while on holiday - only for doctors to tell her she had a cancerous tumour.

Despite having her eye removed, scans revealed the cancer had spread to her liver and she has undergone two failed clinical trials aimed at stopping the growth this year.

The cancer has now grown to 50 per cent of her liver.

This development has made her need for treatment urgent as it cannot be attempted if it grows any more.

She is trying to raise funds for the specialist Delcath treatment, which delivers a select high-dose chemotherapy agent directly to the liver.

She believes it is her last hope of beating the cancer but will need to undergo treatment every six weeks at the cost of £40,000 a time.

Thanks to kind-hearted supporters, more than £80,000 has already been raised.

Ella, a consultant at Colchester-based Whitehall Resources, said: “In order to get into Delcath, I need to have less than 50 per cent disease in my liver.

“We need to get on with the treatment.

“The issue with this is it is now no longer a clinical trial and, therefore, is not funded by the NHS.

“This treatment will cost me £40,000 a session and I could need up to six sessions, if not more.

“When I was told I needed to raise £240,000 I felt it was impossible - I was more frightened about that than any surgery or any treatment.

“Never in a million years did I expect this reaction but they’ve made the impossible seem possible.

“I’m going to do everything in my power to fight and to live - I will never give up.

“I don’t want to die.”

Doctors diagnosed Ella with ocular cancer, which develops from pigment-producing cells in the eye, after multiple tests in October 2018.

The following month she underwent surgery to remove her eye in a bid to stop the cancer from spreading.

Two weeks later, she was told the tumour was contained in the eye socket after scans at Moorfields Eye Hospital, in London.

She had a prosthetic eye placed and said she went about life as normal.

But after a routine scan in September 2019, doctors told her the cancer was back in her liver and was incurable.

They said, if left untreated, she would only have six months left to live.

Ella started clinical trial in January, but after twice weekly treatments for three months, she was crushed to learn it had not worked and, in fact, the tumours had grown.

In May, she started another immunotherapy treatment, but again scans revealed this did not work.

Sadly her cancer continued to grow and she was told it was incurable, but that she could potentially live until an old age.

Ella, from Ashbocking, Suffolk, said: “I was quite naïve but I really thought I’d be all right. I thought they’d remove the eye and I would be fine.

“I never thought it would get to where it has.

“I wasn’t scared or anything - I’m made of tough stuff and don’t scare easily.

“But I didn’t realise it was incurable but if they can stop the growth I can live like this for the rest of my life.

“We just need to find something that will stop the growth.

“The longer we can keep it at bay, the more chance I have for a cure.”

Through the funds raised so far, she has secured the first round of treatment today.

The IT recruitment consultant added: “I can’t believe the amount of support and love I’ve received from people all over.

“It’s been so overwhelming because the past two years have been such a whirlwind.

“No words will ever be enough to thank people’s generosity.”

To donate, visit gofundme.com/f/evtkm-ella039s-fight.