article_snippet.sent: For the parents of children living with cancer, there is often so little hope.
article_snippet.sent: And for those facing the bleakest of prognoses – that, barring a miracle, the disease will cut short the disease young lives
article_snippet.sent: – the agony is almost indescribable.
article_snippet.sent: Sophie Ryan-Palmer, 12, Fabian Bates, nine, and Chloe Balloqui, three, are patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, the leading British centre for treatment of child cancers, and are the youngsters featured in the documentary.
article_snippet.sent: Tragically, although for one of Sophie Ryan-Palmer, 12, Fabian Bates, nine, and Chloe Balloqui, three, treatment is successful, two do not survive the radical procedure.
article_snippet.sent: Similar treatments have been carried out in America, and although the early results look hopeful, the risks are huge and many of the terminally ill young patients die from complications.
article_snippet.sent: During filming, the toddler has surgery to remove a tumour as well as chemotherapy
article_snippet.sent: At one stage Chloe liver becomes dangerously swollen, a potential fatal side effect of the treatment.
article_snippet.sent: Chloe father admits the pain of ‘seeing your child in discomfort, seeing the side effects of what we are doing here to try to kill the cancer’.
article_snippet.sent: Her father adds: ‘You are filling them full of toxicity and you do see the effects of that, and toxicity hits you that your child is going through something you could never imagine.
article_snippet.sent: The youngster had two options: take drugs to fight the pain, and allow [the cancer] to progress to [the cancer] inevitable end; or take part in the immunotherapy trial.