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A little boy who was saved by his brother’s bone marrow last year has now been diagnosed with cancer for a second time, with his mother appealing for help for him to fight the disease again.
J’ssiah Brown beat odds of a million-to-one when his brother donated his bone marrow to help him recover from leukaemia last year.
However, in March this year, the family was told that the cancer had returned.
J’ssiah’s mother is now fundraising to get him Proton Beam Treatment.
“The therapy he could have abroad could kill off the cancer completely,” she says. “We just have to get him there.”
The combination of chemotherapy and liver failure has affected J’ssiah’s skin which is now covered in blotchy patches – and doctors say there is nothing they can do as he only as four months to live.
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The family is trying to raise close to $300,000 to get him the Proton Beam Treatment in the USA or Israel.
The treatment destroys cancer cells directly, leaving healthy tissue virtually untouched unlike in chemotherapy.
“The school have done jeans for J’ssiah days, we’ve hosted fun days, runs, boxing matches, we’re selling T-shirts and putting posters up all around town.
“Our only hope is proton beam therapy and intravenous Vitamin C treatment. A consultation with a doctor in America alone costs $40,000.”
