UK medical nightmare # 862,456
They have to go to mexico because the treatment isn’t available in the UK? Unbelievable.
The family of two young cousins who contracted the same cancer at ten-million-to-one odds face the agonising choice of who to send for costly treatment first.
Chelsea Knighton, three, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma - a rare children’s cancer - in December 2007.
Her parents Andy, 33, and Emma, 28, began a 50,000 appeal to send her to Mexico for possible lifesaving treatment.
Both are undergoing chemotherapy to slow the disease - but doctors here say there is nothing they can do to save them.
The parents are now pinning hopes on a course of photodynamic therapy, which is only available to adults in the UK because of fears over the risks to children.