Parents of six-year-old girl battling rare cancer are raising money for her life-saving treatment

Florence has acute myeloid leukaemia (Image: Andrew Bark / SWNS)

Six-year-old Florence Bark wears a unique princess costume each time she goes for chemotherapy.

The teen is battling a uncommon type of most cancers, referred to as acute myeloid leukaemia, and her mother and father Andrew and Stacey try to lift half one million kilos for her life-saving remedy – which isn’t accessible on the NHS.

When Florence was first taken to hospital with uncommon signs, medical doctors initially although it was a chest or ear an infection after which tonsillitis.

However on Friday 13 Might, the household obtained a most cancers analysis and Florence began receiving chemo on the Saturday.

She was diganosed with the uncommon type of most cancers in Might (Image: Andrew Bark / SWNS)

Florence needs to assist different youngsters on her ward (Image: Andrew Bark / SWNS)

Her dad Andrew mentioned: ‘At first of Might, she had excessive temperatures and she or he was torpid. On most evenings she was spiking temperature-wise.

‘They first recognized her with a chest an infection. Then tonsillitis, then an ear an infection.

‘We had been on the medical doctors 5 occasions in ten days. She had mouth ulcers which had been a standard AML symptom. We saved going again they usually saved saying the identical issues.

‘Fortunately my spouse saved going again. Her motherly instinct kicked in. We went to A&E on Friday 13 of all days.

‘They ultimately did her bloods. Her white blood cell depend was that low they recognized her with leukemia on the spot.

‘Her gums had been beginning to actually protrude. Her mouth had been lined in ulcers. We now know that it is a frequent symptom.

‘My spouse then referred to as me at work in tears and mentioned she had blood most cancers. I blinked after which I used to be on the ground.’

Her mother and father try to lift cash for life-saving remedy (Image: Andrew Bark / SWNS)

Stacey and Andrew say she’s a ‘blissful go fortunate’ woman (Image: Andrew Bark / SWNS)

However Florence additionally requires a bone marrow transplant in addition to different potential life-saving remedy.

In consequence, Andrew and Stacey are hoping to lift the £500,000 wanted for the specialist Automotive-T cell remedy in Singapore or the USA, which isn't accessible within the UK.

Andrew provides: ‘She’s within the high-risk class. We’re going to organise the Automotive-T remedy earlier than we all know the outcomes of the bone transplant.

‘It’s a extremely seemingly that it’s a wanted back-up possibility. The bone marrow transplant is the most secure possibility however the CAR-T remedy is a chance.’

She wears a unique princess costume each time she has chemo (Image: Andrew Bark / SWNS)

‘She has massive brilliant smiles’ (Image: Andrew Bark / SWNS)

Thus far, their area people in Corby, Northants, has raised greater than £330,000 in simply over a month.

And this week hundreds of individuals went to high school and work wearing rainbow colors to lift cash to mark Florence’s sixth birthday.

Andrew and Stacey say they’ve been blown away by the help for his or her ‘blissful go fortunate’ woman – who's alway eager to cheer different youngsters up on her ward.

‘Her empathy ranges for a kid are by means of the roof. She has massive brilliant smiles. She’s all the time fascinated with everybody else,’ provides Andrew.

Florence’s JustGiving web page will be discovered right here.