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The family of a two-year-old girl with cancer on her face have been told she can have treatment in the US after the NHS agreed to pay the ?100,000 bill.
Bethany Topley's parents were told surgery in the UK to remove a cancer tumour in her muscles would mean that she would lose an eye, cheek and half her nose.
But Bethany and her family will now fly to Oklahoma City for three months so the toddler can have radiotherapy.
Similar treatment here would stop her bones growing but the US doctors can use a proton beam that targets the radiotherapy to a specific area.
http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2014/02/11/nhs-pays-100000-to-help-toddler-beat-cancer/
Bethany Topley's parents were told surgery in the UK to remove a cancer tumour in her muscles would mean that she would lose an eye, cheek and half her nose.
But Bethany and her family will now fly to Oklahoma City for three months so the toddler can have radiotherapy.
Similar treatment here would stop her bones growing but the US doctors can use a proton beam that targets the radiotherapy to a specific area.
http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2014/02/11/nhs-pays-100000-to-help-toddler-beat-cancer/