Father's bid to raise final £62k to save life of daughter who suffers same rare cancer that killed Bradley Lowery

A family is in a desperate fight against time to raise the final £62,000 they need to take their child to the US for life-saving treatment for a rare form of cancer.

Daya Amole, who is 22 months old, suffers from neuroblastoma, the same rare form of cancer that killed six-year-old Sunderland fan Bradley Lowery who touched the lives of millions.

Daya's family want to take her to the US in September for treatment which they believe will save her life. She has already received nine rounds of chemotherapy but her condition has not improved.

Her father, Anupreet, began a fundraising campaign to pay for the potentially life-saving surgery in New York.

As of Wednesday, the campaign had raised £300,000. Mr Amole and his wife, Pamela, have a month to secure an extra £62,000.

Mr Amole, a white-collar crime lawyer from Enfield, said: “Put simply, the whole family is living through a protracted nightmare, and we know that our options are running out.

What is neuroblastoma?

Neuroblastoma is a rare type of cancer that mostly affects babies and young children under the age of five.

It develops from specialised nerve cells – neuroblasts – left behind from a baby's development in the womb.

Neuroblastoma most commonly occurs in glands above the kidneys. It affects around 100 children each year in the UK.

“We need to raise money urgently to give Daya the best chance of survival. We are deeply grateful that my colleagues and former colleagues have embraced us.

“For so long, we pushed on in isolation, hoping that the chemotherapy would work. Once things worsened this summer, circumstances forced us to start fundraising.

“We are deeply grateful to everyone who has stepped forward to help us in this struggle.”

Daya, who has a twin sister, is a patient at Great Ormond Street Hospital ‘and the medical team there supports the plan for specialist surgery in New York at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, if financially feasible, given their depth of experience with neuroblastoma.

Mrs Amole said: “When they explained the tests, the cancer and the treatment, I wept quietly.

"All sorts of questions were running through my head. I found it hard to get the words out when I had to ask ‘do we have time?’

"Seeing your child with cancer and suffering through chemotherapy is a parent’s worst nightmares, but we must fight on.”

Much of the cash raised so far has come from Mr Amole’s colleagues in the legal community. The Solving Kids’ Cancer charity is running the campaign.

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