The father of a little boy who needs £250k for an American cancer drug has thanked donors as they break the £80k barrier. Four-year-old Calum Rae has high-risk neuroblastoma, a type of cancer that is uncommon but aggressive and has a five-year survival rate of roughly 50 per cent.
His father, Andrew Rae, and his mother, Victoria McDonald, who tragically lost her own mother to cancer when she was a child, are trying to get the £250,000 to send him to America for a drug trial that may lengthen his life.
The parents spoke to the Sunday Mail last week and have since raised a further £17,721. Andrew said: “It has been amazing. We are just over £82,000, which is insane when you set a target that seems impossible at the start. To reach that figure in such a short period of time has blown us away.
