Four-year-old Dudley girl rings 'cancer free bell' after battling disease for three years
This beautiful video shows a four-year-old girl ringing the cancer free bell after battling cancer for the past three years.
Phoebe Ashfield, four, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at just seven months old in 2019, and relapsed three times during her three years of treatment.
Mum Emma Wyke, 30, from Dudley, captured the moment where she rang the treatment free bell surrounded by the nurses as they gave Phoebe a well earned round of applause and cheers.
At one point during Phoebe's treatment, Emma was warned that she may not pull through, so this moment of ringing the bell served as a huge moment of relief.
Emma said: "At one stage of her treatment I was told that she isn't going to pull through and to prepare myself for the worst. It's devastating and heartbreaking to watch my baby girl go through all this.
"When Phoebe was first diagnosed, I thought they had the wrong child, and it simply cannot be my daughter, as all she had was a cold and chest infection and it can't be cancer.
"When she finally rang the bell it's a mix of emotions - you want to cry happy tears but you still have that worry of wondering if it's going to come back, you don't truly know how to feel.
"Phoebe started off with chemotherapy but unfortunately it wasn't strong enough to keep the cancer away. She relapsed in June 2019 where she had to go for a car-T therapy, which involved taking her own stem cells and modifying them to fight the cancer she then relapsed again in the September.
"It was successful until January 2020 where she relapsed for the third time and needed a stem cell transplant, and time was against us.
"If there is one thing to come of this is that to register to become a stem cell donor through DKMS and Anthony Nolan because without these selfless people, adults and children, my daughter wouldn't be here to tell this tale. If you can please register - you could save someone's life."
