A CAMPAIGN to raise money to help treat a sick child has reached the halfway mark.
Last September Freddie Thompson, three, was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that affects 100 children a year.
Freddie’s Fight is celebrating reaching £125,000, in its bid to raise £250,000 to send Freddie to America for medical treatment.
Since the beginning of February there have been more than 60 fundraising events held, including young children walking 10 miles to a local pair climbing Kilimanjaro. The fundraising efforts will enable Freddie to have a vaccine treatment in Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital, New York. It is hoped that the treatment will reduce Freddie’s chances of relapsing from 50 to 10 per cent.
Freddie, who lives in Ampleforth with parents Philip and Emily and older brother Oscar, underwent chemotherapy and surgery after diagnosis.
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