Kian Musgrove has 30 days to begin a life saving operation (Picture: Facebook)

This little boy needs more than half a million pounds to get treatment of a rare form of cancer.

Kian Musgrove, two, can’t get his treatment on the NHS so will have to travel to the U.S. for pioneering surgery.

He has already undergone extensive surgery but doctors are almost certain that the cancer will return and the money is needed for ‘relapse treatment’.

But he may have been given a lifeline that has left his mother, Kat, in something of a dilemma.


Doctors have come up with a groundbreaking treatment that will cost £140,000, but they have to come up with the money in 30 says.



Mrs Musgrove said: ‘This has left me facing the hardest decision of my life. If I spent the money we’ve raised on the new, preventative treatment, and it doesn’t work, I’m left with nothing.

‘But I couldn’t live with myself if I let this new opportunity pass’.

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Kian Musgrove, 2, with his mum Kat, and sister Katie, 4.

Kian Musgrove has 30 days to begin a life saving operation (Picture: Facebook)

What is Neuroblastoma? Neuroblastoma is the second most common childhood cancer, and makes up eight percent of children’s cancers. Less than 100 children in the UK are diagnosed with the disease every year. The cancer attacks specialised nerve cells called neural crest cells, which are involved in the development of the nervous system. Neuroblastoma most commonly occurs in adrenal glands, but can spread to tissues in the lymph nodes, liver, skin and bone marrow.

The ground-breaking new treatment, called DFMO, aims to prevent the cancer’s return by stopping a cell that creates the neuroblastoma cell.

But the treatment can’t be started any later than 120 days after the patient last underwent immunotherapy and Kian’s last treatment finished 90 days ago.

Kat said: ‘That leaves me with hardly any time to apply and raise the money,

The trial is taking place in New York, so we’d be flying over there every three months for a two-year period.

I can use the £100,000 already raised towards this, but I need to keep fundraising because, if this doesn’t work, I’ll still need £500,000 towards the relapse treatment.’

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Kian was first diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma in 2013, and battled against 27 different tumours attacking his body. The disease first attacked his nerve cells, before travelling around his tiny body and spreading to his bones.

Kian Musgrove underwent treatment for neuroblastoma (Picture: Facebook)

But while the family were delighted when the disease was finally beaten eight months later, medics revealed there was an 80 percent chance that the disease would return.

Kat added: ‘I want to give my boy every chance of survival, I’m sure any other mother would be the same. I’m scared that if I let go of this opportunity, I’ll forever regret it. But then if it doesn’t work, I could be left with nothing’.

Remarkably, medics at the New York clinic where the treatment is performed have said that out of 55 children who have taken part in the trial, just four have suffered a relapse.