Limerick mum 'blown away' by response to cancer trial appeal

Gofundme appeal for the Limerick boy has so far raised €220,000 of a €375,000 target for inclusion on a US trial for an immunotherapy drug 

Theo Murnane, as a baby, with his mother Eleanor. Theo, now aged three, is finishing treatment for cancer after a large tumour was removed from his body, but requires €375,000 to be included on a US cancer trial of an immunotherapy drug, which could dramatically lower the chances of his high-risk cancer returning. 

A Limerick mother of one said she is “blown away” by the response to her urgent appeal for emergency funds to enrol her young son in a US cancer trial, that could help save his life.

Friends of Eleanor Murnane, from Murroe, set up a gofundme account online, last Tuesday, which today had raised over €220,000 of a €375,000 goal.