Father with terminal brain tumour claims high-fat diet of meat and dairy is the reason he’s still alive

A MAN with terminal brain cancer who was given a year to live, claims that ditching CARBS and eating plenty of fat could be the reason he is still alive today.

Last July dad-of-two Dave Bolton, 35, was given just 12 months to live with treatment - or three months without - when he was diagnosed with a terminal Glioblastoma Multiform 4 brain tumour (GBM4).

Dave from the Wirral, Merseyside, had previously been given a five year prognosis in July 2014 - after doctors discovered a tennis ball-sized grade two Astrocytoma tumour in his brain.

However, Dave has now given up eating carbs, fruit, vegetables and sugar and has switched to consuming a diet high in meat, dairy and fats, and his scans now reveal that mass on his brain has almost completely disappeared.

Dave, who is also a former world champion kickboxer, said: "After my diagnosis all these thoughts were running through my head – I wondered whether I would ever be able to walk my daughter down the aisle or watch my son grow up.

";I believe the diet, my attitude, supplements and a host of other alternative treatments alongside conventional treatment have reversed my cancer.

"I shouldn't be here now, but at my last scan the tumour had all but gone apart from a few cells.

"When the doctors told me the tumour had almost disappeared I came out and cried – but for once they were tears of joy.

"I'm not cured – the fight has switched to keeping it at bay – but I know I will still be here in 10 years or longer.

"People always ask me how I stay so positive, but for me it's the only way to live.

"Although it may shock some people, in a way I am thankful for this tumour as it has given me a better outlook on life.

"I have more time with my family – before I thought I needed to make money so my kids could have whatever they wanted, but really they just wanted me at home.

"It has taught me not to take life for granted as it can all be taken away from you in a blink.

";All I want to do now is use my horrific situation to help others and give them hope you can beat a terminal diagnosis."

Dave is dad to son Josh, 11, and eight-year-old Halle and has been married to wife Sam Bolton, 34, a district nurse, for nine years.

The tumour shrinking isn’t the first time the dad-of-two has defied the odds.

In 2004, when he was just 23, he learned to walk again after a near-fatal motorbike accident in Wales - despite doctors saying this would never happen.

Incredibly,  he then then went on to become world lightweight kickboxing champion after competing with the Great Britain squad just a few years later, in Italy in 2009.

Dave, who has also served in the RAF, worked for Merseyside Police for 13 years and was used to high-pressured situations.

However, in May 2014 he suffered a violent 15-minute seizure during the night and was rushed to hospital.

It was there that doctors discovered a tennis ball-sized tumour in the frontal lobe of his brain.

Good-humoured Dave jokingly named the Astrocytoma II tumour 'Terry', and the following month underwent surgery at The Walton Centre for Neurology in Liverpool to de-bulk it and needing no further treatment.

But, last July a routine scan revealed that the mass had returned and this time is had become a malignant Glioblastoma Multiform 4 (GBM4) – a tumour nicknamed 'The Terminator' by doctors because of its low survival rate.

Dave underwent a second nine hour brain operation to remove as much of the tumour as was possible and then began six weeks of combined radiotherapy and chemotherapy which was followed by six month-long cycles of intensive chemotherapy at the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Birkenhead.