The family of a Scots tot battling cancer have made an urgent plea as they race to secure funds for a tial drug.Stephanie Kent, 30, and Jamie Gentleman, 30, were horrified to discover their daughter Flora had swollen lymph nodes at the back of her head in late March 2021.Little Flora, from Aberlady, also developed mysterious bruising around her eyes.
But it wasn't until Flora was rushed to Edinburgh Sick Kids' A&E at the end of March that doctors confirmed her devastating diagnosis.
Flora's parents were told the tot had stage-four neuroblastoma - an aggressive childhood cancer. After months of "intense" treatment, including a seven-hour operation to remove her tumour, the family was relieved when an MRI scan shortly before Christmas came back showing there was no 'active cancer'.
But the family is in a race against time to secure funding for a drug trial in New York.On the treatment she has received to date and its impacts, the fundraiser states: “Flora has already undergone eight rounds of chemotherapy, a seven-hour surgery to remove her tumour, five weeks of high dose chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant in isolation, and radiotherapy.
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