A girl who turns 13 today has asked for donations to a children’s cancer charity rather than birthday presents as she battles leukaemia.
Eloise Taylor was forced to return to Great Ormond Street Hospital when the rare blood cancer returned in May after just over a year in remission.
She has received a second bone marrow transplant and has been in isolation since September, with only parents Jay and Tanya and clinical staff able to enter her room. She hopes she will be well enough for her sisters, Erin, eight, and Evie, seven, to visit today.
Eloise, from Dagenham, was first diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) two days after Christmas 2015, when she was nine.
She was declared cancer-free in April last year after almost three years of treatment that included a bone marrow transplant from Evie, then aged four.
But Eloise felt unwell during a charity-funded family trip to Disney World in Florida in May. Tests at Gosh revealed the cancer, the most common type of leukaemia in children, had returned.
She has already raised more than £1,000 for Children with Cancer UK and hopes the total will be boosted by birthday donations.
She said: “They do lots of research about childhood cancers. I really don’t want any more children to go through what I’m going through.”
READ MORE :- https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/birthday-girl-13-asks-for-charity-donations-not-gifts-as-cancer-returns-a4309421.html
Eloise Taylor was forced to return to Great Ormond Street Hospital when the rare blood cancer returned in May after just over a year in remission.
She has received a second bone marrow transplant and has been in isolation since September, with only parents Jay and Tanya and clinical staff able to enter her room. She hopes she will be well enough for her sisters, Erin, eight, and Evie, seven, to visit today.
Eloise, from Dagenham, was first diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) two days after Christmas 2015, when she was nine.
She was declared cancer-free in April last year after almost three years of treatment that included a bone marrow transplant from Evie, then aged four.
But Eloise felt unwell during a charity-funded family trip to Disney World in Florida in May. Tests at Gosh revealed the cancer, the most common type of leukaemia in children, had returned.
She has already raised more than £1,000 for Children with Cancer UK and hopes the total will be boosted by birthday donations.
She said: “They do lots of research about childhood cancers. I really don’t want any more children to go through what I’m going through.”
READ MORE :- https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/birthday-girl-13-asks-for-charity-donations-not-gifts-as-cancer-returns-a4309421.html
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