Beloved granddad, 52, told to pay £120k if he wants to receive recommended treatment for his cancer

A 52-year-old man says he has been 'left in limbo' as he is forced to raise £120,000 for treatment of his rare cancer - which is not funded by the NHS.

Craig Shore, from Glossop, was diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer, for which standard chemotherapy has just an eight per cent chance of success. But the specialised treatment recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which develops guidance about procedures for the health service, is not being funded by the NHS.

That means Craig is now trying to raise the six-figure sum for three courses of the treatment himself.

READ MORE: Murder investigation launched after 31-year-old woman dies

READ MORE: Police cordon off busy high street after woman dies

Craig first started struggling with his vision in December 2020. The University of Manchester engineer was being fitted for new safety goggles for work and at first he thought his sight problems were because of a new type of lens.

"It looked like stairs were floating when I was going downstairs," he told the M.E.N. Craig's vision was becoming cloudy and he went to get his eyes checked again.

After a handful of appointments at Tameside Hospital trying to figure out the cause and limited results, Craig was sent to Rochdale Infirmary to be checked by particular equipment. Experts at both hospitals could not establish what was wrong and he was sent on again to the Royal Oldham Hospital.

Yet more tests and more questions later, Craig was eventually sent to St Paul's Eye Unit in Liverpool in mid-2021. There, he faced a horrifying diagnosis - uveal melanoma, a rare type of cancer occurring in the tissues of the eye.

Around 750 cases of ocular – or uveal – melanoma are diagnosed in