The parents of a four-year-old boy with a rare cancer are desperately appealing for help to raise £250,000 to send him for a drug trial in America that could prolong his life.Little Calum Rae has high-risk neuroblastoma - a rare but aggressive cancer - which has a five-year survival rate of around only 50 per cent.
Mum Victoria McDonald, who was a child when she lost her own mother to cancer and dad Andrew Rae are hoping that the treatment will will give them more time with their son.
Andrew, 35, from Troon, Ayrshire said: “We have to be strong, we have to keep fighting for Calum and we are doing everything we can to help save our little boy.
We just need some help.” Calum, who was diagnosed in March, has already endured seven gruelling cycles of chemotherapy and still faces a stem cell transplant and four weeks of radiotherapy.
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