In July 2009, our little boy Adam was diagnosed with High-Risk Neuroblastoma, one of the most aggressive and difficult to treat of all paedeatric cancers. By the time of his diagnosis the cancer had spread from a primary abdominal tumour to arms, legs, pelvis, ribs, spine, and skull vault. It had infiltrated distant lymph nodes. And more than 80% of Adam's bone marrow was filled with neuroblastoma cells.

Over the past two years Adam has been receiving continuous treatment under the care of the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton. He has undergone 97 days of chemotherapy, 2 administrations of high-dose whole body radiation therapy, 3 stem cell harvests, a 7-hour operation to resect his abdominal tumour, and high-dose chemotherapy followed by stem cell rescue. Most recently he has started a 12-month course of oral chemotherapy.

Despite all this treatment mIBG scans, the most reliable test for neuroblastoma, still show widespread bone and bone marrow disease.

There are no further treatment options for Adam in the UK. Our next move is to take him to America or Germany for immunotherapy treatment. After that we simply do not know what the future holds.

Follow Adam's progress at http://blog.adamsappeal.org

We are raising money to enable us to take Adam for treatments that are not available
in the UK.