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Abbie
Abbie & her brother Jamie
Abbie – June 2006 |
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Abbie’s
Fund Inspired by Abbie Shaw Registered charity no. 1119273 |
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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 had 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 www.abbieshaw.me.uk
for Abbie’s complete story. 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 PO Box 355 Leatherhead Surrey KT22 2EA UK e-mail info@abbiesfund.com UK tel +44 (0) 1483
282869 Registered Charity no. 1119273 Click
here to download Imagine, a
PowerPoint presentation promoting Abbie’s Fund Information The
following web sites provide good information about neuroblastoma:- http://www.royalmarsden.org.uk/RMH/cancer/paediatriccancers/neuroblastoma/
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