Dexter was just five when he was diagnosed with parameningeal embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, presenting in the nasopharyngeal. It grew aggressively out of his right nostril over a three-day period, after an agonising fight for him to be seen by medics.  On December 5^{th 2019,} we were told it was cancer and had to start emergency chemotherapy immediately. Dexter went on to have nine rounds of IVA, 33 days of intense proton radiation therapy, numerous biopsies’, lumber punctures and blood transfusions and finally, six months of maintenance Chemotherapy which gave our family 15 months of hope that the tumour had been killed off. Dexter’s tumour was deemed inoperable in frontline treatment. In March 2022, his three-monthly scans showed aggressive growth from the original tumour, and we were told he had likely a year on chemotherapy but on May 6^th, 2022, scans proved that the treatment was ineffective. We were given four to six weeks together. Dexter fought on and continued living until he passed away on 27^th July 2022. 

We want to contribute to helping Alices arc by raising funds, funds that focus on non-animal tested research, to help families that face this unthinkable diagnosis in the future and hope that one day, better, less brutal treatments will be available, with a real chance of saving lives, a chance Dexter didn't have.