Schoolboy set for US cancer treatment trip

A SCHOOLBOY from Overslade is to travel to America for specialist life-saving treatment against an extremely rare cancer.
Adrian Secareanu is one of only 77 people in the UK since 1967 to have Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma.
And after being diagnosed in 2012 and having several operations to remove it from his neck and jaw, the 12-year-old is to have Proton Therapy to prevent it returning in a more aggressive form.
The treatment - which directs radiation treatment to precisely where it is needed with minimal damage to surrounding tissue - will be funded by the NHS and carried out at the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute in Jacksonville where he will spend around three months.
Mum Corina, a nurse at St Cross, said: "We are overjoyed at being able to secure the funding and that he will be going to America as soon as possible.
"You think something like this wouldn’t happen to you and that it can’t touch you. But we now know this is not the case.
"Adrian is a wonderful child, very polite. We want to have his life back.
"Hopefully we can help raise awareness of the condition because another child could have to go through the exact same situation."
The family are now hoping to raise £10,000 with the help of charity Kids ‘N’ Cancer so his mum and dad can stay with him in America.