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Abbie
Abbie & her brother Jamie
Abbie – June 2006 |
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May 2007 ABBIE’S FUND – Registered Charity No. 1119273 Abbie’s
Fund has recently been set up as a charity.
The Fund has been operating under non-charitable status for almost two
years, during which time we have raised over £70,000. We hope with its new status we can now
raise even more money to help sufferers of Neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma
is an extremely aggressive childhood cancer of specialised nerve cells,
called neural crest cells. These cells
are involved in the development of the nervous system and other tissues. Most children who get this cancer are
younger than five years old. In the majority the disease has spread by the
time of diagnosis and despite intensive treatment and achieving remission many
children subsequently relapse and die. It is one of the most difficult
childhood cancers to treat and further research is needed to beat this
disease giving children in the future the chance of survival. Abbie was
diagnosed with Adrenal Neuroblastoma when she was 21 months old. She underwent intensive treatment with
induction chemotherapy, high dose chemotherapy, stem cell transplant,
surgery, radiotherapy and Retinoic acid.
She went into remission and was declared free of disease in January
2004. Unfortunately, a relapse was
diagnosed in June 2005 and she had to undergo yet many more months of
chemotherapy, radiotherapy and numerous other invasive and horrendous
treatments to try and rid her of this despicable disease. Abbie’s family and friends were all
devastated when she finally lost her fight for life in September 2006. Abbie won
the hearts of hundreds of local people who followed her courageous fight to
the end. She was a truly beautiful, special, loving, funny, intelligent,
determined, dignified, feisty and unique child. All these words were used in ‘A Tribute to Abbie’ by her
father on the day of her funeral, but the word he finally chose to capture
the essence of Abbie was an ‘Inspiration’.
She certainly was that. As
Trustees of Abbie’s Fund we are determined to do our utmost to raise as much
money as we can to help other children who are going through the same
dreadful journey as Abbie. We intend
to raise money for research to help make Neuroblastoma survivable and look
into other areas of innovative treatment as well as supporting those children
already suffering from this horrendous childhood cancer.
Claire
Attard Lori Wormald Mike Shaw Susie Shaw Ellie Puddle
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