We are delighted that Isla’s fundraising campaign with Solving Kids’ Cancer has raised more than the £155,000 target. This means that the funding is now in place for Isla to travel to the USA for a clinical trial and to cover the associated costs of treatment for its duration. 

Isla has been fighting high-risk neuroblastoma since her first birthday, receiving extensive treatment in the UK. As her end of treatment scans showed no evidence of the disease, we are now just waiting for a date for her to start the trial at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York. The prospect of cancer coming back is extremely high for children like Isla, and if it does, there’s a less than 1 in 10 chance of survival. 

So, Isla’s parents have chosen for her to have a treatment called the bivalent vaccine, a clinical trial that we all hope will help prevent her cancer from returning. We’d like thank everyone in the local community for your overwhelming generosity, love and support in raising this money for Isla and her family. We are so grateful for your ongoing fundraising efforts. Any funds raised above what’s needed for Isla will be held for her with SKC for a period of five years after all her treatment finishes. We really hope that Isla will not need extra funds during this time, but if she does, they’ll be available. If not, they’ll be used to help other children and families affected by neuroblastoma through our work.

Please donate now, on this page.

Read more about Isla’s story on the SKC website.