I’ve battled horrendous cancer treatment: so now I’ve raised an incredible £3000 for charity Ovacome

A Fylde coast woman who has been battling ovarian cancer has described an emotional few weeks after her fundraising for cancer support raised an incredible £3000.

Adele Booth, from Poulton, organised a garden party earlier this month to raise money for Ovacome, a charity supporting people with ovarian cancer and their families through incredibly difficult times.

Adele, who has been battling ovarian cancer herself for the past two years, has now revealed the event raised an incredible £3,000 for the charity.

Speaking to the Gazette about her personal journey, fundraising efforts and hopes for the future, Adele said: “I was diagnosed two years ago, in June 2024. I've got stage 3B ovarian cancer. I had a massive operation to take everything away, to remove all my womb, my tubes and everything.

“They found four lots of cancer at the time. They removed everything and I had five rounds of gruelling chemotherapy — and when I say gruelling, it was absolutely horrendous.

I'm now on maintenance therapy and that will be for two years, so hopefully by early next year I will have completed the maintenance therapy. I'm still undergoing scans and regular appointments, but it has been a massive journey which is still ongoing.

“With this event, we originally set out to beat my last target, which was £1,000, and I thought if we just did that, it would be perfect. But, the money just kept coming in, and when we did the final total we had hit £3,000, which is just absolutely phenomenal.

“Seeing people at the event, and realising that they'd actually travelled to come and support us, that really touched me. When you've been through such a lot and then you see all these people coming together, supporting you and supporting the cause, it's incredibly uplifting.

“It was emotional. People turned up with families that had lost family members to cancer that I'd become close to, so it was nice to see those. One family turned up that had had a baby and they'd named her after one of my friends.

“At one point, I just stood back and looked at what I'd created and the amount of people that were there, and that meant a lot. People were coming to support me and my cause and it just made everything that I'd planned for the day so worthwhile.

“It was all about raising awareness and we certainly did that on the day. So a lot of people went away not just with fantastic prizes, but also with more awareness of ovarian cancer as well.”

More details including information on how to donate to Adele’s cause can be found here.