cancer -stricken boy received the perfect Christmas gift – £270,000 to pay for a pioneering medical treatment. Parents of a four-year-old boy said they got the "best Christmas present ever" after the huge sum was raised by well-wishers.Oliver Stephenson was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma last January.Since then, the condition spread to his skull, eye sockets and bone marrow.The cancer affects 100 children in the UK every year.Since he was diagnosed, Oliver had chemotherapy, stem cell treatment and a bone marrow transplant.
Now, thanks to a crowdfunding campaign, he will travel to America next year for a pioneering new vaccine which aims to stop the cancer returning.
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