A SPRINGSIDE woman is urging people to have any suspicious lumps checked out - after her partner was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Jamie O’Hara has just months to live after doctors revealed three weeks ago he is suffering from clear cell carcoma, a rare form of cancer.

The 26-year-old and partner Amanda Collins, 30, were left stunned by the diagnosis and devastated at the prospect of two-year-old daughter Luna left without her dad.

But the couple’s friends and family have rallied round the pair to try and give them the holiday of a lifetime.
Amanda’s pal Vicki Beddall set up a Just Giving page with a £5,000 target and have amazingly raised £4,120 just nine days after launching.

The logistics of any trip are still to be worked out, however, with Jamie likely to require specialist help.

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But Jamie is determined to not let his illness get the better of him and spend precious time with Amanda and Luna.

Speaking this week, Amanda revealed how Jamie was seen by several doctors after experiencing pain on his foot.

But the Springside couple had no idea about the true cause of Jamie’s aches.

She said: “Jamie went to the doctors in December last year about his foot before he was sent to the chiropodists.

“They sent him back to the doctors and he was in more and more pain the longer it went on.

“He had three different scans and it took ages for results to come back.”

Amanda added: “It was two Wednesdays ago that we got the diagnosis about how rare Jamie’s cancer is, the doctor said he had only seen it three times in his 14 years as a specialist.”

“Jamie had the lump for months and being a typical guy he didn’t bother getting it checked.

“So I’d say anyone who has got a lump anywhere to get it checked out straight away.”

The family have received incredible support since Jamie’s diagnosis, particularly from a group of Amanda’s friends who use the mother-centric website Netmums.

Amanda added: “Two of my friends on the group page came up from London and Bournemouth just to have a party for Luna which was incredible.

“Jamie thought no-one cared about him but it gets him teary when he sees the support he’s had.

“We want to go to Disneyland but we’ll just have to see how he is.

“That’s what’s driving him to carry on, we try not to think morbidly but he said ‘if it means I’m not going to make it I want my last days to be with Luna’.”

Anyone wishing to donate to the family’s Just Giving pledge can visit crowdfunding.justgiving.com/fortune