Help raise money for Poppy's treatment
We're raising £250k to pay for Poppy to access crucial treatment abroad.
In July 2020, just weeks before her 5th birthday, Poppy was diagnosed with stage 4 high-risk neuroblastoma. A chest x-ray had revealed a large tumour at the back of Poppy’s chest, wrapped around her heart and pushing against one of her lungs, and we later discovered it had also spread across her body including into her bones.
Neuroblastoma is a rare and aggressive childhood cancer that affects around 100 children each year in the UK. ‘High-risk’ means the cancer has spread, and children diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma have one of the lowest survival rates of any childhood cancer. Since diagnosis Poppy has endured 13 rounds of chemotherapy with side effects such as sickness and hair loss. The treatments have cleared a lot of the cancer cells but not enough to move onto the next stage yet. She is currently taking part in a clinical trial at UCLH and Southampton Hospital with the hope of clearing even more of the cancer cells. She's had countless general anaesthetics, injections, bone marrow biopsies, CT scans and MIBG scans and relies on tube feeds as her main source of nutrition as her appetite has decreased and she often feels nauseous If her current clinical trial is successful Poppy will still have surgery, high-dose chemotherapy with stem-cell rescue, radiotherapy and immunotherapy to complete her frontline NHS treatment. Unfortunately the NHS doesn't quite cover all the options needed to kick the cancer out and make sure it doesn't come back. So we are now fundraising to access further treatment in America, either to get her into remission or to try and prevent it relapsing. Both treatments cost around £250,000 to access. Read more on her fundraising page. |
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