Neive Warwick

Neive, aged 5, was diagnosed with embryonal/fusion negative parameningeal rhabdomyosarcoma, in September 2022. Her care was led from Birmingham Children’s Hospital and she endured nine rounds of intensive chemotherapy & proton beam therapy. Neive commenced maintenance chemotherapy in April 2023 but sadly her end of treatment scans in September 2023 showed disease progression in the brain and spinal fluid. Neive went home on palliative care to be with her family. She passed away peacefully and gracefully in her own bed on 24th October 2023 at aged 6 years old with her Mum holding hands and surrounded by unconditional love.

Every year over 500 children die from a form of cancer in the UK alone, and only 4 new drugs have been developed in the last 20 year.

At junior school, I lost my best friend Sall Hall to cancer, a moment in time and feeling I will never forget.