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A mother-of-one has died just weeks after she was accepted on to a trial to receive potentially life-saving treatment.
Sarah Wright, 33, from Warehorne near Ashford, was told her breast cancer had metastasised and was incurable, in August last year, the month after she gave birth to her daughter Everleigh.
Last month, Sarah, an ex-Team GB skeet shooter, was accepted on to a trial in the US for a promising new drug, leronlimab.
But, her husband Adam confirmed his wife had died 'peacefully and pain free' at 11am on Tuesday.
In a statement on Facebook, the 35-year-old said: "It is with the heaviest heart that I tell you our beautiful Sarah passed away after her health took a nose dive over the weekend."
"She fought so so hard all the way, she was the bravest most courageous, strong, loving and wonderful wife, mother, daughter and sister.
"Everleigh and I miss her greatly, there is a big void in our lives now."
He added: "Thank you all so much for supporting our campaign, time wasn't on our side in the end and we were so close to getting Sarah on leronlimab."
The couple discovered Sarah was pregnant and had triple-negative breast cancer in the same week in November 2018.
After a pregnancy interspersed with rounds of chemotherapy, she gave birth on July 2, before being told the cancer had spread to a lymph node behind her sternum, her liver and lungs just weeks later.
The family tried a series of treatments in an attempt to save Sarah, including a clinical trial on atezolizumab at Maidstone Hospital and five sessions of carboplatin chemotherapy treatment.
In April this year, the NHS told Sarah it could no longer help her, so husband Adam contacted the clinic in San Francisco and started a social media campaign, #SaveSarahGray, to encourage leaders to allow her to travel to the trial.
