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Tomáš Souček and Vladimír Coufal , Slavia Prague and Czech Ambassador auction raises £5,500 for Isla s Fight
An auction supported by West Ham United stars Tomáš Souček and Vladimír Coufal, Slavia Prague and Ambassador of the Czech Republic in London Libor Sečka has raised £5,500 for the treatment of courageous young Hammer Isla Caton.
Isla, seven, was diagnosed with the rare childhood cancer neuroblastoma at the age of two, underwent lifesaving surgery at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital and had been receiving pioneering medical treatment in the Spanish city of Barcelona.
The brave young West Ham fan, from Hornchurch in Essex, suffered a relapse just before Christmas after returning to the UK, but is hoping to resume treatment next week.
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Fundraiser for Neuroblastoma sufferer Isla
By Andrew Atkinson
Two businesses in Los Montesinos have got together in their efforts to raise funds for Isla Caton. And to help new businesses.
Isla was diagnosed in March 2017 with a rare child cancer called Neuroblastom.
This is a particularly aggressive form of cancer that has spread to her bones and bone marrow.
Only 100 children in the UK get neuroblastoma every year and immunotherapy – which involves the injection of an antibody therapy – is not currently available on the NHS.
Benefactors are trying to raise £192,000 to get her to USA as soon as she finishes her UK treatment so that she can receive the Bivalent vaccine in Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer hospital in New York, that can prevent her neuroblastoma returning.