John and Vicky Inglis with son Jamie

John and Vicky Inglis with son Jamie

Australia New Zealand Out08122010 Ukhow We Raised ã400000 in Less Than a Year to Save Our Little Boy’s Life with Pioneering Us Cancer Researchwhen Four year old Jamie Inglis Was Diagnosed with a Highly Aggressive Form of Cancer His Parents Faced a Seemingly Impossible Challenge Find ã400000 for a Lifesaving Procedure or Consign Their Little Boy to a Probable Death Sentence john Inglis 38 and His 35 year old Wife Vicky Were Told That Their SonÃâ¢s Neuroblastoma Was So Advanced He Stood Less Than a 30 Per Cent Chance of Survivingbut While Researching JamieÃâ¢s Condition on the Internet the Couple Found out About a Pioneering Antibody Treatment in the Us Which Could Dramatically Improve the Odds Ð at a Priceso Mr and Mrs Inglis Set Up an Online Appeal Went out with Collection Buckets and Asked for Help from Strangers in Yorkshire and in Germany Where They Were Stationed with the Army when Jamie Was Diagnosed colleagues in the Forces Took Up the Challenge with Fundraising Events and Coffee Mornings One Group Cycled Hundreds of Miles to Raise Cash Another Woman Handed over All Her 60th Birthday Money a Stranger Donated ã8500 from a Trust Fund and One Charity Gave More Than ã40000Ãâit Really Was UnbelievableÃ⢠Said Mrs Inglis at the FamilyÃâ¢s Home in York Ãâwhat Happened Was Truly Humbling and We Will Never Be Able to Thank Everyone ProperlyÃâ¢there Was a Strict Deadline for the Family to Find the Money As Jamie Had to Begin the Antibody Procedures in Philadelphia Within 100 Days of Undergoing a Stem Cell Transplant Operation in Germany Ð and the Bill Had to Be Settled Before Treatment Could Start mr Inglis an Environmental Health Technician with the Royal Medical Corps Said Ãâwe Never Thought We Could Do It at First Jamie Was So Sick and the Doctors Advised Us That It Was Such a Difficult and Stressful Undertaking Ãâbut We Had to Try and I Treated It Like a Military Operation We Wanted to Make People See They Were Saving a ChildÃâ¢s LifeÃâ¢jamie Now Five Was Taken Ill in April 2009 and a Hospital Ultrasound Revealed He Had a Large Tumour in His Abdomen Tests Showed the Cancer Had Already Spread Through His Body in the Months That Followed He Underwent Eight Courses of Chemotherapy in a Dusseldorf Hospital Spent Time on a Ventilator in Intensive Care and Had an Operation to Remove the Tumour and a Kidney a Ninth High dose Course of Chemotherapy Was Designed to Kill Any Remaining Cancer Cells and Ãâtotally Wipe OutÃ⢠His White Blood Cells Which Fight Diseasethen in January This Year Stem Cells Harvested from His Body Months Earlier Were Transplanted Back into His Body to ÃârejuvenateÃ⢠His Immune System Photo Shows Five Year Old Jamie Inglis with Parents Vicki and John Inglis at Their Home in Fulford Near York East Yorks Jamie Suffers from a Rare Form of Cancer Neuroblastomaéjames Curleywhitehotpix credit Image © Whitehotpixzumapresscom