Fresh Hope To Save Our Stan

£500k donation gives cancer boy, 3, a new chance of life

-  Martyn Halle and Nicola Small

A Boy of three diagnosed with incurable leukaemia is set to spend a miracle Christmas with his family after revolutionary treatment in Singapore that cost £500,000.

Stanley Dalton has flown back to the UK for a festive celebration parents Georgia Brecken and Lee Dalton thought he would never see.

After his cancer returned for a third time in June, little Stan’s consultants said there was nothing more the NHS could do for him. But they said pioneering treatment was available in Singapore – if the family could raise £500,000 to send him.

It was a race against time because he only had around four weeks before he would be too ill to travel.

Landscape gardener Lee, 35, and postal worker Georgia, 33, of Carlisle, Cumbria, called for aid online and generous well-wishers helped them reach their target in time.

Grateful

At the end of August, Stan flew to Singapore for groundbreaking CAR-T treatment – advanced immunotherapy that killed most of his cancer.

He is thought to be the youngest patient to have the treatment.

Now, Stan is back at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne where he yesterday started having chemotherapy to kill the remaining cancer ahead of a stem cell transplant on Thursday.