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davese16 4:43 Sun Jan 24
can we try and help save this 6 year old girls life ?

UK government should be paying to save this 6 year old girls life instead the parents are having to do a fund raise, the parents started a fundraiser a few days ago, they need £370,000already have £60,000, dont know the family but its a sad story where our £5 donation could save her life


www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/19029088.life-without-lily-totally-unthinkable-got-fight-her/

Alfs 5:30 Mon Jan 25
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arsene york-hunt 4:23 Mon Jan 25

As a father of four, I can't even begin to comprehend what you and yours went through. My belated condolences.

davese16 5:15 Mon Jan 25
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hi arsene, a horrible dilema that i would not wish on anyone
mate

Fifth Column 5:12 Mon Jan 25
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Well said Arsene. And again I'm so sorry.

davese16 4:57 Mon Jan 25
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to anyone ive offended sorry, dont know the girl or her family, just trying to save a little girls life by spreading the word, and yes i often give to good causes, dont give a fuck about the politics but dont like to see any kid suffer if theres a chance of saving their life, reading it in my local paper made it real, just as with little isla and the little sunderland kid bradley

davese16 4:51 Mon Jan 25
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gank if trying to help a little girl makes me a cunt, im happy to be a cunt, my honest opinion is that any british person needing life saving surgery should be able to access it free in this country, especially when its a six year old kid, credit to the parents for trying to save their daughtewrs life

arsene york-hunt 4:23 Mon Jan 25
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I have been in this situation where my daughter was dying of brain cancer, and people kept telling my wife that we should take her to Germany or America. I discussed this with her oncologist and several doctors with whom I worked, and came to the conclusion that if we took her she would suffer longer but be just as dead. One way we would have a dead daughter and the other a dead daughter and bankrupt.I had watched her deteriorate over four years from an active intelligent girl to a girl with disabllities which took everything from her. The extra years gained by surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy etc caused her nothing but misery. Arriving at any decision was something I would not wish on my worst enemy.

Stubbo 2:35 Mon Jan 25
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Done

gank 2:15 Mon Jan 25
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* some types

gank 2:15 Mon Jan 25
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That makes interesting reading, it seems strange to prioritise sometimes of cancer over others - although the answer to providing more funding to a specific type is probably to reduce it in another.

easthammer 2:01 Mon Jan 25
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Gank
You are right to say that this issue is above politics, well certainly above party politics, Governments of all colours for a number of years have failed to address the following:

Brain tumours still kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer, yet despite promises of increased investment in research from the Government and larger cancer charities we are still not seeing parity of funding with other cancers such as breast, prostate and leukaemia.

More children and adults under the age of 40 die of a brain tumour than any other cancer
Five-year survival for breast and prostate is over 70%, leukaemia over 40% yet for brain tumours it is just 12%
Since national cancer spend records began in 2002, £680 million has been invested in breast cancer, yet only £96 million in brain tumours – that’s a difference of £35 million a year over 17 years (cp Brain Tumour Research)

gank 12:04 Mon Jan 25
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Nobody thinks it's wrong, look at the support little Isla Caton gets on here, and rightly so. The point is, in many countries a little girl wouldn't get treatment if her parents couldn't afford it. The UK government operates a programme whereby a citizen gets any available treatment without prejudice. But this cunt is having a moan, why isn't he petitioning for us to fund foreign kids to get treatment instead of slagging ours off?

easthammer 3:35 Mon Jan 25
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For those that think funding families to go looking abroad for treatment is wrong. Perhaps they would like to give some support to this site. Then maybe not so many families would feel the need to do so.

https://www.braintumourresearch.org/campaigning/brain-tumour-research-petition?utm_source=facebook%20post&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=campaigning%20-%20brain%20tumour%20research%20petition&utm_content=text%20-%20eptition%20share%20button&utm_term=none%20-%20none%20-%20none%20-%20worldwide&fbclid=IwAR0bi6N_3pyOBLoVfxHkSgBO6MWjPL307ZUaqgdxFSzIn4U2F7wt7TCJlpg

easthammer 3:22 Mon Jan 25
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As someone who lost a young Son-in-Law to a Brain Tumour, I know that it is an area of cancer research that it is greatly underfunded in this country. It is also an area of cancer that has shown little improvement in survival rates.

That being said what this family needs now is hope and love. From what I read the family are looking for a treatment to extend their daughter's life. My Son-in-Law through treatment (not all of which was on NHS) got another seven-plus year from diagnosis. In which time he had some good times and saw his son born.

I don't know what this little girl and her family can gain from the exercise of seeking treatment abroad but I for one am happy to help them try to find some hope at what I know must be a terrible time.

Alfs 10:02 Sun Jan 24
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This isn't going as you thought, mate.

Thing is, there are a lot of ambulance chasers in the US along with promises of miracle treatments to desperate parents. It's a vile practise as it gives false hope.

gank 9:45 Sun Jan 24
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What the fuck does this have to do with the UK government? They don't treat this condition in Britain. You've taken a really sad story and embedded some kind of political point-scoring into it, you're a proper cunt.

Fifth Column 8:51 Sun Jan 24
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I respect the efforts of the parents. I'd do the same.

Many times in cases like these you have dodgy medics abroad who convince parents their kid has a chance if they can just raise the half a million they're going to charge. I'm not saying this is the case here necessarily but it does happen and there is no explanation really about why they can't access this on the NHS. Has the NHS concluded it doesn't work?

God bless the parents and the girl.

master 7:02 Sun Jan 24
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Justify your first 11 words.