'It was all very innocent symptoms but eventually it turned out then that she had a tumour in her tummy'
Claire Donnelly's daughter Ellen Treanor, seven, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in January 2018 when she was just 2-years-old. She finished treatment in May 2019 and a trial in New York in 2020.
"I took her to the doctors but it was kind of said, whenever potty training, some kids just do [become constipated]. There would have been a couple of kidney infections but they said that would go in hand with constipation. The family are continuing to fundraise for The Children’s Cancer Unit Charity. Claire told Be the difference it made and said: "Ellen's treatment lasted about a year and a half.
"We wouldn't have been able to take Ellen to see Santa because the risk of infection, she wouldn't have been able to get out and about much, so that was lovely. The CCUC Stormont Mile, in association with Hagan Homes, allows participants to run or walk the iconic Prince of Wales Avenue in the shadow of Parliament Buildings on Saturday 1 October.