Billie Butterfly Fund is now raising money for child brain tumour research through Brain Tumour UK. Please give generously.

Billie Bainbridge is a 5 year old little girl with an inoperable brain tumour, The Billie Butterfly Fund was set up to raise funds for her treatment. Thanks to the generosity of so many people we have reached our main target. We now want to raise much needed funds for child brain tumour research. Brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of children in the UK but research is woefully underfunded. Please help us to raise money so that children like Billie have a better chance of beating this terrible disease.

ABOUT BILLIE: Until the start of June 2011, Billie was just like any other lively 4 year old child, full of life and looking forward to starting school in September.

Then without warning she bagan to have difficulty swallowing, her eyes started drooping and she became wobbly on her feet. Within two days she had a brain scan and was diagnosed with the most serious type of brain stem cancer. This cancer is inoperable because the tumour is where the most vital functions are located. Radiotherapy is used to shrink the tumour but frequently it starts to grow again more aggressively and survival rates are poor.

As if this wasn't bad enough, Billie's mother Terri was diagnosed with breast cancer a few months earlier and had surgery to remove a large tumour.

Apart from radiotherapy there is no other treatment available for Billie's type of brain tumour. So after talking to cancer charities and to other families with the same experience, and an exhaustive search for all possible treatments anywhere in the world, many of them experimental, the decision was made to seek treatment in America.

After 5 weeks in the USA in autumn 2011, Billie is now continuing her treatment at home in the UK monitored by her own doctors.

You can follow Billie's progress on www.billiebutterflyfund.org. Please donate what you can to support research into this terrible disease.

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