€300k sought to save 10-year-old Robyn Smyth

A Dublin mother is facing a race against time to raise €300,000 in just four weeks to cover the costs of a groundbreaking vaccine trial in the US that she believes offers the best hope of saving her cancer-stricken daughter’s life.

€300k sought to save 10-year-old Robyn Smyth

As things stand, Robyn Smyth, 10, who suffers from neuroblastoma and who has battled childhood cancer since the age of three, has just a 5% chance of survival.

Although the youngster was declared disease-free for the first time in early 2009, she relapsed less than two years ago when a tumour broke through her jaw bone and the cancer quickly spread to her spine, legs, and pelvis.

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