Household’s ‘inconceivable’ struggle to lift £300,000 for most cancers jab for little Teddy
The household of a four-year-old boy hoping to fly to New York for a most cancers vaccine are midway by their “impossible task” of elevating £300,000.
Teddy Lichten was recognized with high-risk neuroblastoma final July and given a 40 per cent likelihood of reaching his eighth birthday.
He is because of end gruelling frontline NHS therapy by the top of this yr.
The youthful’s dad and mom then plan to take him to the US to entry an experimental jab that goals to chop the prospect of his most cancers returning.
Teddy’s mum Kat, 34, mentioned it felt “like our whole world was imploding” when the aggressive most cancers was detected.
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She added: “When your child is diagnosed and you hear that they’ve got a 40 per cent chance of survival, you want to do absolutely anything in your power to better that.
“We’re in the most stressful period of our lives trying to care for an extremely sick child and we’ve also got a 17-month-old as well, and we’ve also been spearheading a £300,000 fundraising campaign at the same time.”
The vaccine just isn’t out there within the UK and a bigger worldwide trial is required to show whether or not it really works.
Teddy’s household, of Hassocks in West Sussex, is backing the Daily Express’s Back Britain to Beat Childhood Cancer campaign.
Together with charity Solving Kids’ Cancer UK, we’re calling on the Government to assist fund a transatlantic examine which might enable sufferers to entry it right here.
Kat mentioned their fundraising had been a “huge burden” however she now believed their mammoth goal was inside attain.
She defined: “It’s been a long slog to £150,000 and it’s been incredible to see all the support we’ve had from the community, strangers up and down the county and even abroad as well.”
Teddy’s therapy up to now has included 4 months of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants, one among which led to him spending Christmas Eve in intensive care.
Once he’s in remission, the £300,000 would pay for the household to take eight journeys to America over three years.
Kat mentioned of the vaccine: “It can’t be available on the NHS until there has been a randomised phase three trial here in the UK. But that would take about 10 years and about £15 million of investment.”
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