Callum Phillip Kaye was born on the 21 st April 2002 to Anna Eagle and Craig Kaye from Penhill, Swindon.

When he was 2 years old he started developing fits, which the doctors diagnosed as Epilepsy in January 2005. However they were unable to bring these fits under control and after 10 months of further testing Callum was finally diagnosed with a Medulloblastoma, a severely malignant brain tumour, on the 25 th October 2005.

On the 5 th November 2005 surgeons managed to remove only around 80% of the tumour and 3 Cycles of chemotherapy and 6 weeks of radiotherapy to the brain and spine failed to remove the rest. Since his NHS treatment, scans have shown that there has been no progression of the original tumour, although there has been some metastasis (spread) down his spine via his cerebral spinal fluid.

The doctors have told the family that no more can be achieved with NHS treatment.

The UK Survival Rate For Medulloblastoma is only 20%

The family has managed to track down cutting edge techniques including Brainlab and antibody therapies at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York as well as other American treatments like Cyberknife, that will be able to remove the leftovers of his original tumour and flush out the rest of the cancer from his body.

However, a deposit to the hospital for such treatment costs around $350,000 (£175,000), and can run to over $1 million (£500,000).

For more information about this treatment, please click here

To raise the money needed Callums family and friends are launching an appeal across Wiltshire so that he can receive the treatment he so desperately needs.

They will be selling raffle tickets for just £1 each in the knowledge that if everyone in Wiltshire bought just £5 worth the money needed would be raised very quickly. Any money left over once Callum has received all the treatments he needs will go towards helping other UK children fight their illnesses.

Our Authenticity

Callum has been featured by a number of Newspapers and also by the BBC, see below.

You will never be asked to make any payments over the phone, or asked to give any type of credit/debit card or bank details.

We never ask for donations over the phone, all we request is that we can send you some raffle tickets for you to buy and return to us with payment in your own time.

All cheques and postal orders must be made out to ‘Callums Appeal' and posted to the campaign office at Callum's Appeal, Shaftesbury Center, Percy Street, Swindon SN2 2AZ.

Callum's Appeal will never call at your home. All contact will be by telephone and mail.

Callum In The Media

Click below for links to Callum in the news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/7071429.stm

http://www.thisisswindon.co.uk

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