Corey's appeal

Corey's experience

Corey had a large tumour in his abdomen and the cancer had spread to his bones and bone marrow. Corey received 8 doses of chemotherapy, a complex 6 hour operation to remove the tumour, stem cell rescue with high dose chemotherapy and radiotherapy. His family were advised that Corey would need to respond to each stage of a 6 month treatment plan to be eligible to join a clinical trial for immunotherapy in the UK.  

Given the difference in treatment for immunotherapy in America, his parents opted for Corey to receive three immunotherapy drugs, as opposed to the one or two available drugs as part of the randomised clinical trial in the UK. 

Thanks to the generosity of Corey's local community who donated to Corey's appeal with the charity J-A-C-K and general funds from the Neuroblastoma Alliance, Corey was able to start his immunotherapy treatment at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in November 2011. He made remarkable progress through every round of the gruelling treatment and currently has no detectable disease.

Despite everything Corey has gone through there is no guarantee that the cancer will not return. If the cancer were to come back, the UK doctors would not have a protocol to treat it in a curative way. The Ashcroft family would have the use their privately raised funds and would launch a new fundraising appeal. Corey's parents say they would immediately travel abroad for further treatment in order to give Corey the very best chance of survival. 

You can read more about Corey and his fight with neuroblastoma on Joanna's blog. 

You can still help Corey and children like him

• You can donate to by clicking the donate now button and selecting 'Corey Ashcroft's Appeal' from the drop down menu
• Visit Corey's fundraising page on JustGiving
• Hold a fundraising event to benefit Corey's Appeal - contact Claire, our Community Fundraising Manager, on 020 7284 0800 to find out more!
• Donate by text message by texting CORY99 and an amount £1, £2 £3 £4 £5 or £10 to 70070

Alternatively you can send a cheque made payable to the 'NCCA UK – Corey Ashcroft Appeal' and post it to:

NCCA UK 
5 Harmood Grove, 
London 

NW1 8DH

You can also make a payment into the charity bank account in person at a bank, or through your personal online banking. Please contact us for details if you would like to do this.