A brave schoolgirl has entered the record books as the first person to beat a rare cancer thanks to a pioneering new treatment.
Jeanie-May Cooke, 11, was diagnosed in 2017 with leukaemia and histiocytic sarcoma, which spread to her lungs, kidneys and liver a year later.
The family was told there was nothing much more which could be done and was sent to St Andrew’s Hospice.
Her mother, Katie Hannaford, pleaded with doctors to try a pioneering new drug being trialled in the USA known as Trametinib, which she took for 54 months.
To the family’s joy she is now cancer free, Grimsby Live reported.
Jeanie-May said she is thankful for all the support she has received, adding: “The people who donate their bone marrow so that people like me can have a transplant are amazing.
“I do not know who they are but I am very pleased and thank them for their donation."
Her mum added: “I pleaded with them to try to find a way and liaise with a specialist in America who was using a pioneering drug. The drug she was on before the bone marrow transplant saved Jeanie's life.
"Remember, when somebody says you can’t do it, there is always a first person that can. She is that first person. Never give up hope. Fight with your all, dream big and achieve bigger. Jeanie has proved them all wrong.
“Jeanie is now cancer free and we are planning a big birthday bash on August 20 and will hire a big bell so Jeanie can ring it to say she is all better and thank everyone who has supported her."
In 2018 the schoolgirl had most of her right leg amputated because of complications with leukaemia and has a wheelchair to help her get around.
Earlier she was at Sheffield Children's Hospital to meet her oncology doctor Dan Yeomanson, who is writing a medical paper on Jeanie-May and her success in fighting the cancer.
Katie added: “It is wonderful to see her being a normal child, a chance we thought she would never get.
"She missed a lot of her primary school time but is doing well at Havelock Academy and as soon as the alarm goes at 7am, she is as bright as a button and raring to go.
“There are some very generous people. The amount of lives we have seen saved by donors is wonderful.
“Jeanie-May thanks them all and she likes to read all the messages on Facebook and she smiles from ear to ear because there are so many people who care and support her."
The youngster’s ambition is to be an ice-cream lady and wants to set up her own Cookies Creams business.
