Having seen the situation faced by Sophie and her family, Metro Radio's Cash for Kids felt compelled to get involved and try and do as much as possible to save this beautiful little girl's life.

Sophie was diagnosed with neuroblastoma stage 4 (high risk) on Monday 16 February 2009. She was just 15 months old. Neuroblastoma is a rare and aggressive malignant cancer with horrendous survival rates as low as 20%. Relapse is very common which is reflected in the survival rate. If relapse does occur there is no cure at the moment in the UK.

After extensively searching through the current treatments available, an option for Sophie would be to have a monoclonal antibody known as 3f8 at the same time as she has her Accutane (oral chemotherapy). Combined, this treatment gives Sophie a staggering 80-90% of survival. The huge downside of this is that the only place in the world that offers this treatment is a hospital in New York called Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital. The cost for this treatment alone can be in excess of $500,000. WE HAVE UNTIL THE 9TH NOVEMBER TO RAISE THE QUARTER OF A MILLION POUNDS NEEDED TO SEND SOPHIE TO AMERICA FOR HER TREATMENT. This is a huge amount of money, but there can be no price put onto a baby's life.

Please dig deep - and help save Sophie.