4-Year-Old Boy Battling Cancer Catches Coronavirus and Beats It
he’s been undergoing immunotherapy treatments and chemotherapy ever since, putting him in the higher risk category for developing severe symptoms of the coronavirus.His family was caught off guard by the coronavirus symptoms, at first mistaking them for side effects of his cancer treatments.
“Especially having a child that classed as extremely vulnerable, we were really worried about how he was going to cope with it if he got it,” Archie’s mom, Harriet Wilks, told the BBC. “We were quite used to hospitals, but we were quite shacked in the room together for six days. We weren’t able to leave the room at all, so that was a slightly different experience,” Simon Wilks, Archie’s dad, told the BBC. “But all the nurses made it really, really bearable; they made it as easy as possible for us.”Archie lives with his mom and dad and his twin brother Harry.
Since his story has spread, Archie's parents have been fundraising to try to get him in a vaccination trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC.to help to raise awareness of Archie’s cancer fight and to raise money to attempt to get him enrolled in the trial study in the United States. Given Archie and his family live in the UK, they’re looking to raise £230,000.00, which is about $286,000, to help prevent a relapse of his cancer.
“Children that successfully complete Neuroblastoma treatment and become ‘cancer free’ still have a 50% chance of relapsing,” the JustGiving page read. “Once a child relapses with Neuroblastoma, 90% will not survive.”
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