Two years after he was told he would die within the month, Vitor Pinto is cycling 100-miles, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

In April, just after COVID struck the world, Vitor went to the doctors after experiencing extreme pain that stopped him from sleeping: “I decided to go to the hospital and when I got there I just passed out. I spent the weekend there whilst they performed some tests.”

When the results came back, it was confirmed he had stage four Hodgkin Lymphoma.

“That’s the highest stage for that sort of cancer,” Vit continued. “I was told by my consultant that if I didn’t receive treatment immediately, I could be dead within a month! I was thinking, ‘That’s it, I’m going to die’.”

Vit was offered one of the most aggressive forms of treatment to try and tackle the disease. “I had to stay in the hospital for a week so they could do the first cycle of treatment. The programme was supposed to be 12 months but I asked them to double the dose and by Christmas 2020 I was told I was finally in remission.

Source: Cancer survivor to cycle 100-mile bike ride for charity – East Midlands Business Link