【Medicine】 Filial daughter's letters that brought her mummy back from the brink of death

Laura Binder with Alicia, two, and Linzi, nine

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[Dailymail(5 November 2011) Doctors told mother-of-two Laura Binder that her cancer had spread from her breast to her liver and that there was nothing that could be done to cure it.

But one person refused to give up: Mrs Binder's nine-year-old daughter Linzi. Every day for the next seven months, Linzi wrote her mother a letter urging her not to give up the fight. "You are like the centre of a rose and you smell just like a beautiful red one. You can fight cancer. You can fight it. I love you!"

And Mrs Binder did it. A doctor called it a 'miracle', and her body is now completely free of cancer.

The single mother, 32, who lives in Norwich with Linzi and her younger daughter Alicia, said: "It really is remarkable. I was so scared that I was going to die and leave my daughters without a mother. The doctors told me that my cancer had spread to the liver and they could try to control it but they couldn't cure it."

"But Linzi refused to give up on me and wrote me these wonderful letters every day ever since. She was determined that I wasn't going to die and I was going to get better. And her wonderful letters have helped a miracle happen."

"It just brought tears to my eyes when I read Linzi's letters. I would look forward to getting them each day – it really brightened everything up for me. To read such devotion was so inspiring. I was exhausted from the chemotherapy and I lost all my hair. But her letters gave me the strength to fight on."

Mrs Binder went for a scan after several months, expecting to hear that the cancer had spread even further. But to the amazement of both her and her doctors, the scan revealed no trace of any tumours.

"I just couldn't speak, I was in complete shock. To be told that there was nothing that could be done for me, and then finding out the cancer has completely gone was just incredible. The doctor just said to me that I was a miracle. And that's what it seemed like. I couldn't stop crying with relief."

"I went to pick her up from school the day I got my scan results and I told her the cancer had all gone. She just burst into tears and kept hugging me. She couldn't believe it either. I couldn't have done it without her. Her letters kept me going. The doctors can't explain why my cancer disappeared, but I can. Those letters gave me a reason to keep fighting."

The last letter, which read simply: "Congratulations! All your cancer is gone. I love u!" A spokesman for Cancer Research UK said: "Occasionally it can happen that cancer goes completely into remission like this when it is thought there is no hope."

"The love from a daughter is a strong powerful thing. Positive thinking provides an incentive to get better. It's amazing how things like this can happen and there is no explanation for it."
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