Hope for boy with rare cancer as generous strangers fund new treatment
A BOY denied NHS treatment despite suffering from a super-rare form of cancer now has a chance of survival - thanks to the British public.
Daryl Allison was thrown a lifeline by the Great British public after the NHS denied him treatment
Daryl Allinson, 13, was diagnosed with a rare type of leukaemia last year.
He initially went into remission after a bone marrow transplant from his brother Bradley, 22.
However, the cancer returned and doctors said he would die within months unless he had a second transplant.
If we had not raised the money it is very likely Daryl would not be with us today
Daryl's parents Terry, 57, and Sam, 42, said NHS England turned down a funding application for treatment because it was "too expensive" and there were "no guarantees".
So they set about finding the cash themselves and in a month their online fundraising page had raised £80,000.
Daryl, from Frome in Somerset, began new treatment earlier this month following another donation from his brother.
Doctors said the 13-year-old would die within months if he did not get a second transplant
Father Terry, Daryl, mother Sam and brother Brad raised £80,000 in a month
Brad donated his bone marrow to brother Daryl
He is now recovering.
Former soldier Mr Allinson said: "If we had not raised the money it is very likely Daryl would not be with us today.
"We really appreciate every donation but we are still angry. It's not about paying for the treatment anymore, it's about the morals of the NHS being able to decide they can choose to take a child's life."
When Daryl was taken to hospital blood tests revealed he had a form of leukaemia so rare that no doctors treating him had ever heard of it.