Jan Higgins wrote:There is now another local child in desperate need of funds for cancer treatment abroad, such a shame people have to travel overseas to get vital cancer treatment.
Jan, with all due respect, I'm not sure this is the case. Not being medically trained I try to avoid commenting on cases like this, especially when as a parent I suspect that if one of my children were ill I too might be looking for anything anywhere which might give even an outside chance of recovery.
NHS Choices have a piece here after a like case a few years ago
https://www.nhs.uk/news/cancer/what-is-proton-beam-therapy/
NHS is
already paying for patients to be treated abroad 'in already established centres in the US and Switzerland, and has been doing so since 2008'.
http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2017/07/17/proton-beam-therapy-is-arriving-in-the-uk-what-does-that-mean-for-patients/