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On February the 14th 2009 Felix was diagnosed with stage 4 Neuroblastoma, a particularly rare and aggressive childhood cancer. The tumour started on the adrenal gland in his abdomen, and has spread to his spine, skull vault and bone marrow.

Neuroblastoma affects approximately 100 children a year in Britain and has to be treated very aggressively. Felix has completed 16 rounds of chemotherapy over the past 10 months. He will soon have surgery to remove the primary tumour, followed by stem cell transplant, radiotherapy and immunotherapy.

Devastatingly, this is a cancer that has a nasty habit of not going away, so the treatment is very thorough. We will have to nurture Felix’s body through it and build his immune system up from scratch when it’s complete. We have to be prepared for anything as there can be all sorts of complications throughout the treatment, some which may mean going on a different protocol, some of which may even mean looking at treatments outside the NHS.

He is in the amazingly knowledgable hands of the Royal Marsden team under the leadership of Prof Andy Pearson, a global expert in Neuroblastoma. The team are pulling out all the stops, and Felix is responding well in the early stages. Four things are very important to compliment the chemotherapy

Keep him happy – bags of positive energy and spirit.

Keep him well fed – lots of nutritious, natural food.

Keep him strong and exercised – lots of football, secret path walks and chasing his brother and sister.

Keep his immune system going – a handful of supplements and complimentary elements that help protect his body from infection.