Megan’s parents hope she can start playschool free from cancer

THE parents of a Cork toddler, undergoing specialist treatment in New York for a brain tumour, say their wish for 2011 is their brave daughter will start playschool in September, free from disease.

Three-year-old Megan Malone from Kilnamartyra near Macroom, is continuing to receive specialist treatment at New York’s Presbyterian Hospital.

The treatment, unavailable in Ireland, has been tough on the toddler who received a setback during Christmas when it was discovered she had developed a bacterial blood infection. As a result, Megan’s time with her family at their temporary home in the New York suburb of Yonkers was short-lived.