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Jennifer Hyland

Family of Scots boy with rare cancer desperately need £250k for American drug trial

The parents of a four-year-old boy with a rare cancer are desperately appealing for help to raise £250,000 to send him for a drug trial in America that could prolong his life.

Little Calum Rae has high-risk neuroblastoma - a rare but aggressive cancer - which has a five-year survival rate of around only 50 per cent.

Mum Victoria McDonald, who was a child when she lost her own mother to cancer and dad Andrew Rae are hoping that the treatment will will give them more time with their son.

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