My niece Molly, age 6, was diagnosed with a malignant rhabdoid tumour in her neck https://www.facebook.com/Mollys-Way-255080148250051/

I had never heard of a rhabdoid tumour until my Mum broke the news to me of Molly’s cancer.   This cancer is incredibly rare
and it is highly unusual for it to appear in the neck. 

Molly was fit and well as she started chemotherapy and radiotherapy but the treatment to cure Molly is horribly aggressive – poison which hopefully kills the malignant cells of the cancer but also has lots of nasty side effects as well. 

There is so much we don’t know or understand about cancer in children as it is underfunded and treated in the same way we treat cancer in adults, when their bodies are still developing and changing. 

Almost 4,000 children and young people are diagnosed with cancer every year in the UK. That’s ten every day. Children with Cancer UK is the leading national children’s charity dedicated to the fight against childhood cancer. They fund life-saving research into the causes, prevention and treatment of childhood cancer and they work to protect young lives through essential welfare programmes.

Doing this fundraising for Children with Cancer will help their research programmes into improving the treatment of tumours like Molly's.  As it has been awful watch this beautiful girl become so frail from the chemotherapy and radiotherapy .... there has to be a better way.