Brave toddler halfway through lifesaving cancer treatment

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A brave toddler from Milnrow is halfway through her lifesaving cancer treatment course in Germany.

Two-year-old Bodie McNulty is approximately halfway through her six-week course of proton beam therapy.

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Proton beam therapy avoids targeting healthy brain tissue, unlike photon radiotherapy. 

Once Bodie has completed 30 doses of the treatment, the centre where she is undertaking treatment will see if she’s tolerating it well enough to be given an additional three-dose booster.

Her parents, Lauren Thornton and Kevin McNulty, have had to take out a loan to cover the full cost of the treatment outright, which has been estimated at €61,400 (approximately £53,000), plus any additional medical costs.

Lauren said: “Bodie’s doing really well so far, and in herself, she’s the best she’s ever been.

“We’re still fundraising while we’re out here, to cover the initial treatment cost which we had to take out a massive loan to cover, our living expenses and any additional medical costs.”

The brave little girl was initially diagnosed with a brain tumour shortly after Christmas 2016 when she was just 10 months old, undergoing two extensive operations to remove only half of the tumour.

Two weeks after the operation, Bodie was diagnosed with a Grade Three Anaplastic Posterior Fossa Ependymoma, the third most common type of childhood brain tumour.

Since then, Bodie has endured 12 months of chemotherapy and two further operations, which left behind a small inoperable amount of the tumour in her brainstem.

To help fund Bodie’s life-saving treatment, visit:

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/protonforbodie