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Abbie
Abbie
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Abbie Shaw |
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Abbie Elizabeth Shaw 1st March 2001 – 11th September 2006 In December 2002,
we discovered that our 21 month old daughter Abbie was suffering from a rare
cancer called Adrenal Neuroblastoma. After having a tumour removed from her
abdomen we were hopeful that Abbie would make a full recovery, however in
July 2003 we were devastated to discover that she had relapsed with the
cancer spreading to her bones and bone marrow and a secondary tumour
developing in her abdomen. Abbie’s cancer was also NMYC positive which means
that she has the most aggressive type. Abbie responded
well to the heavyweight treatment that she underwent – intensive induction
chemotherapy, high dose chemotherapy, stem cell transplant, radiotherapy and
Retinoic acid and was declared free of disease in January 2004. In March 2005
Abbie suddenly started limping and was eventually diagnosed with a stress
fracture in her left ankle. Sadly if failed to heal and subsequent
investigations in June 2005 showed a relapse in her bone marrow. After
several more rounds of chemotherapy and MIBG treatment with stem cell rescue
in January 2006 we were hopeful that Abbie would go into remission, however a
scan in April 2006 showed the cancer was back. Abbie had a few months of
relatively good health but by July 2006 her condition began to rapidly
deteriorate and our beautiful daughter died at home on September 11th
at 7.36am. See History for
Abbie’s complete story A tribute to Abbie by her Daddy A tribute to Abbie by her Mummy Abbie’s Fund Abbie’s Fund was set up by local mothers after Abbie relapsed in June 2005. To date Abbie’s Fund has raised over £80,000 for the Neuroblastoma Society for research. Abbie’s Fund is a registered charity with the aim of making Neuroblastoma survivable and supporting those children already suffering from this horrendous childhood cancer. Contact Abbie’s Fund Rowbarns Cottage Green Dene East Horsley KT24 5RG UK e-mail
info@abbiesfund.com UK tel
+44 (0) 1483 282869 Registered Charity no. 1119273 Please visit the Abbie’s Fund website,
www.abbiesfund.com Information The following web site provides good
information about neuroblastoma:- http://www.royalmarsden.org.uk/RMH/cancer/paediatriccancers/neuroblastoma/ |
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