A FUNDRAISING campaign has been launched to raise £10,000 for a toddler to get crucial cancer treatment.

Isla-Grace Large, of Yeadon, was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of bone cancer which requires intensive treatment.

Less than 30 children in the UK develop Ewing’s sarcoma each year. It usually occurs in the teenage years, and is more common in boys.

The toddler has been having chemotherapy treatment at Leeds General Infirmary since she was diagnosed in October last year, when she was just 14 months old. She is currently undergoing her fifth round and is expected to have a total of 14 treatments before October this year. She will have a major operation next month to remove the main part of her tumour on her neck.

Brave Isla-Grace may then need further treatment abroad while undergoing proton therapy in one of only three centres in the world, which are located in Florida, Oklahoma and Switzerland.

Now workmates of Isla’s grandmother, Julie Hiley, at CLS Identification Ltd, in Bradford, will be getting on their bike and scaling new heights to reach the target. Mrs Hiley and work-mate Adele Kerrod will be abseiling down the Jurys Inn hotel in Bradford on March 6 and ten staff will then be cycling and running the 482-miles from Bradford to Paris on a stationary bike and treadmill between March 9 and 13.

A family fun day is at LA Fitness, Haworth Lane, Yeadon from 1pm on Sunday, March 1. It will feature a bouncy castle and face painting for children. Mrs Hiley, 47, of Rufford Ridge, Yeadon, said: “The impact on the family of Isla’s cancer has been massive. But it has brought the whole family together. Everybody is rallying round. My work-mates have given me so much strength.”

She added: “Isla is a cheeky monkey. Very strong, very independent. Things just don’t faze her. You would not know she was not well from her attitude. She makes us all laugh. That helps us as well.”

Go to islagracehospitaladventure.com for more or to make a donation.