Family of father battling aggressive brain cancer in Milton Keynes desperately fundraising for treatment abroad

Jahveen Davis, aged 48, has been diagnosed with astrocytoma, IDH1-mutant - a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer. His family has set up a gofundme page to help cover the costs of the specialist treatment that he needs to recover.

Before his diagnosis, Jahveen went to the GP more than five times with severe headaches and neurological symptoms. Each time, he was told it was stress and then, tinnitus.

His family said that on one visit, after explaining how much his symptoms were worsening, he was told: “Don’t worry. It’s definitely not cancer. You’re too young.”

So Jahveen continued to work, to push through the pain, and to endure what they now know were silent seizures every single day. In October 2023, a private GP urged him to go to A&E immediately as his symptoms intensified.

One week later, he and his family’s world came crashing down. He was diagnosed with diffuse astrocytoma — a cancer that threads itself throughout the brain.

His wife Pally Davis said: “We have been together for 25 years. He is my soulmate. We have two young sons who adore their dad. We cannot imagine our lives without him.”

Jahveen has always been incredibly active — swimming, cycling for hours, running, and even completing triathlons for fun.

His family describe him as gentle, kind-hearted and curious in nature. Pally added: “He is the kindest, most authentic, and loving person I have ever known.”

She said that he is “always learning, reading, exploring new ideas. Even through treatment, he has never stopped wanting to understand and grow”.

From January 2024 to October 2025, Jahveen received the only chemotherapy treatments available on the NHS. His family continued to cling on to hope.

Pally said: “We lived. We made memories. We laughed whenever we could. We held onto love.”

But tragedy struck again in April, July and October of 2025, when scans confirmed that the cancer had spread significantly.

Jahveen and his family were told that his time was limited and that the only option available on the NHS was palliative care – nothing to help him recover. But they refused to give up hope.

They searched internationally and found other treatments aimed at getting Jahveen better. They found clinics abroad offering personalised immunotherapy, cancer vaccines developed from tumour DNA, targeted treatments specifically for IDH1-mutant brain cancer, clinical trials that can’t be accessed in the UK.

After working tirelessly to get him seen, Jahveen and his family finally got the breakthrough they’d been praying for. The top specialist in Germany has now accepted his case. He’ll be receiving dendritic cell therapy — a targeted, personalised treatment designed for his specific cancer type. But they now need to raise £35,000 to cover the treatment and related costs.

Jahveen has sadly needed to be taken back to hospital. His family are desperate to get him to Germany for the specialist treatment as soon as possible.

You can visit Jahveen’s gofundme page to donate towards his cancer therapy or share his story with your friends, workplaces and community groups.