The Lanarkshire family of a brave four-year-old boy battling a rare form of cancer are trying to raise £250,000 to send him to America to get him on a vaccine trial that would decrease the chances of his illness relapsing.
Young Calum Rae was diagnosed with stage M high-risk Neuroblastoma, an aggressive cancer with a high chance of reoccurrence which only 100 kids a year in the UK suffer from, on March 1 after initial chickenpox symptoms failed to clear up.
Calum has had eight cycles of chemo since then and his parents, Victoria MacDonald, 33, and Andrew Rae, 35, are now fundraising to send their son to a vaccine trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York.
