Myself (Lauren ) and Dan Caines will be taking part in our first ever Triathlon on 10th May to raise money and awareness for Franks Fund for Bone Cancer Research Trust because this worthy cause is so underfunded. With the whole team behind us at Joseph Ferarro Hair we are hoping we can help. Please give what you can to help us smash our target! 

About Frank- written by his parents...

Fabulous Frank

Frank was so full of life, so full of energy. He made us laugh everyday with his quirky sense of humour and his big, cheeky grin. Frank loved so much about life. Family and friends were the most important things to him. He loved all he simple things that every 14 year old boy enjoys - sleepovers with friends, playing in the park, kicking a ball, going to the cinema, eating Nando’s.

Frank loved sport too. He showed great potential at golf and tennis as well as football, swimming and netball. He was an avid Chelsea supporter.

From a very young age Frank adored theatre. He was intuitive beyond his years, loving plays and TV dramas that we never thought he’d understand or sit through. He was often the youngest person in the theatre but always one of the most engaged.

In April 2016, just as Frank was looking forward to going to secondary school, our world collapsed when he was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. He was just 11 years old.

The next 12 months were tougher for him than anything we could ever have imagined: 14 exhausting cycles of chemotherapy, 2 months of proton therapy in the US and an horrific 8 hour operation to remove 
the tumour and a substantial part of his pelvis.

Frank’s raw courage in learning to walk again after his operation and the way he went about rebuilding his life and getting back to school were awe inspiring. His positivity, resilience and amazing character kept us all
going through some very tough times.

In September 2017, after just 5 months in remission, the disease  returned. Frank was confronted with further endless cycles of chemotherapy and radiotherapy with just a tiny chance it could cure 
him. Somehow he found the strength to keep going and the spirit to remain cheerful. If anyone asked him how he was feeling they always received the same answer, ‘I’m good thanks’, accompanied by a huge grin.

Our beautiful boy’s short life ended on February 9th 2019. We are left devastated but immensely proud.

Ewing sarcoma most commonly affects children and young adults 
aged 10-25 years old and makes up about 1.5% of all childhood cancers. A child, teenager or adult is diagnosed with primary bone cancer every 10 minutes, but primary bone cancer received just 0.04% of funding from the major UK cancer charities in 2017/18 and shockingly their investment in the disease dropped by 43% to a 16-year low. This lack of investment means that neither treatment nor survival rates have improved in over 30 years and that there’s little chance of survival if it returns.

Frank would never want any child to suffer as he suffered. If his death is to have any meaning at all, it needs to be to help people who are diagnosed in the future by raising funds that can be invested in desperately needed research.

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