Mum's urgent appeal to 'save our Katie'

The mum of a teenage girl from Liverpool who's battling cancer for a second time has made an urgent appeal for help in trying to pay for experimental treatment which could save her life

14 year old Katie Wright from Wavertree has Downs Syndrome and was first diagnosed with leukaemia in 2013

Since then she's had three years worth of treatment and her family was told that the cancer had subsided. But last week, they were told by Doctors that Katie had relapsed and was battling the disease again

Katie's mum Rena said "It felt surreal. Our hearts have just broken into a million pieces. Children with Downs Syndrome have a higher risks of developing leukaemia. She does get very poorly. When she gets ill she gets very sick for long periods of time."

"It's just the most helpless feeling in the world. A mum's job is to fix her children when it's totally out of your hands there's nothing you can do but comfort her and hope the doctors do the best they can by her"

"We were all just looking forward, and had our whole lives looking forward to. She's had her best shot at round one, and now we need to try and get her treated on a new programme."

Now Katie's family are hoping stem cell therapy which is available in the US - could be the key to helping her. They are now trying to raise £120'000 before Christmas to give her the best possible chance she can have.

Rena said: "There's two children who have come back from the States and it's been really successful. I do feel that it's lovely to know two children have been presently cured through the treatment and it gives me a great hope."

I feel its time to take the cancer out of Katie's body so she doesn't have to keep facing this, or the worst possibly scenario for us as a family"

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