Family rally to help cancer girl

Chloe and her parents are due to fly to the US on Thursday

A family from Kent have re-mortgaged their house to pay for cancer treatment in the United States for their three-year-old daughter.

Chloe Wright, from Herne Bay, has an advanced cancer which affects about 100 people every year.

To help pay for the £200,000 trip to Texas her parents have sold everything they own and friends and relatives have rallied to help.

But there is only a slim chance the treatment in Houston, which is the only place where research is being done into combating the disease, will be a success for Chloe.

'Number one'

Chloe's mother, Debbie Wright, said: "I will take any chance at any cost.

"At the end of the day it is a life. It is a three-year-old girl and I don't think a three-year-old should be written off so quickly."

Dr Julia Chisholm, consultant, said: "We don't understand very well the reasons why it happens in the first place. We know a lot more about how to treat it.

"This is a tumour that is often relatively straight forward to treat when it occurs in a localised lump in a particular part of the body.

"It becomes very difficult to treat when it is spread around the body at the time of diagnosis and we know the outcome in that particular situation is not as good than if it is just in one place."

Chloe's father, Darren, said: "We have not had really time to think about ourselves. Chloe is number one and everyone is rallying around Chloe."

The family still need to raise more money to meet the target but are due to fly to the United States on Thursday.