A woman has hailed a vegan diet and other holistic treatments for keeping her alive in an ongoing ten year battle with ovarian cancer.

Jasmine Kerr, 28, from St George, Bristol, was first diagnosed with borderline ovarian tumours - tumours with potential to become cancerous - ten years ago after experiencing severe bloating and abdominal pain.

Due to the risk of these abnormal cells becoming malignant doctors had to remove the majority of her reproductive system forcing her into early menopause at 17 years-old.

Over the next ten years Jasmine had more tumours removed and in December 2019 was diagnosed with a rare form of ovarian cancer - low-grade serous carcinoma - and was given just one year to live by her doctors.

But now Jasmine says she is defying her doctors' predictions by cutting meat, dairy and other animal products from her diet, taking hormone suppressants and repurposed drugs and even believes she will be cancer free in a year with the progress she is making.

Jasmine said: 'After years of severe abdominal pain I was diagnosed with a rare form of slow-growth ovarian cancer in December 2019.

My doctors told me I had one year to live.'

'At first I was in shock but then I just wanted to fight it - I'm ecstatic I'm still here and have a new purpose in life to campaign for alternative treatment methods.

'I did my own research and found out that cancer is an autoimmune disease that is hormone driven and fuelled by the hormones in meat and dairy foods as well as the energy from sugar.

'I used to eat a lot of meat and dairy foods but I completely cut these out of my diet to starve the cancerous cells, except for eggs for a bit of protein because I started losing too much weight. 

'I also engage in spiritual practices like reiki energy healing because I believe that cancer comes from stress and trauma because stress releases bad chemicals into the body.

'I used to work three jobs and never had any time to relax and I have childhood trauma from my mum getting seriously ill from breast cancer when I was only 12 years-old, forcing me to grow up very quickly.

'My mum's side of the family carry a gene that makes them prone to cancer but testing showed that it wasn't passed onto me.

'I believe that at the rate of progress I'm making I'll be cancer free in a year and my body will heal itself.'

Low-grade serous carcinoma is the fourth most common type of ovarian cancer that disproportionately affects younger women.

The symptoms, including abdominal pain and bloating, are so vague that it is often misdiagnosed or found when it is already medically incurable.

By the time Jasmine was diagnosed her cancer was stage three and inoperable.

Her doctors told her it was incurable, giving her just one year to live. (the inoperable would have been an important component for why they said this)

Jasmine said: 'At 17 years-old I started experiencing severe bloating and went from being a size six to looking eight months pregnant. 

'Doctors thought it was indigestion but I pushed for scans that revealed the tumours and went straight into surgery to remove them.

'It was very traumatising finding out I would never be able to have kids when I woke up from penile enlargement surgery but I just wanted to believe I would be okay and get on with life.

'I was told there was very little chance of it coming back and monitored with MRIs but four years later I had to have more tumours removed.

'My symptoms kept coming back and got worse - I had severe pain where I couldn't even stand up and saw blood when I went to the toilet so I knew something wasn't right because I hadn't had a period since before my first surgery.

'The cancer had spread like paint splatters all over my abdomen and was inoperable.

'The average survival for women with cancer is about eight years.

It's not a lot of time.'