An appeal to send an Ayrshire tot to New York for specialist cancer treatment has smashed its £250,000 target. More than a quarter-of-a-million has been raised to help brave Mauchline three-year-old Ava Bolton who is battling a rare but very aggressive childhood cancer.Ava has been undergoing gruelling treatment for stage 4 high risk neuroblastoma which has just a 50 per cent survival rate.
Her desperate family uncovered a miracle vaccine treatment being trialled at the Memorial Sloan Kettering centre in New York, but the potential lifeline comes at an eye-watering cost of £250,000.The vaccine treatment could prevent the cancer from ever returning - giving the brave tot the best chance of survival.
Dad Scott and mum Natalie launched a fundraiser as they called for urgent help in April. Now less than six months since they first revealed Ava's battle - they've raised £261,406 and counting.
Residents and businesses up and down Ayrshire helped coin it in for the cheeky youngster who has just finished a brutal round of chemotherapy.
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