The Leader Newspaper
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.