Parents who thought their two-year-old daughter had beaten back cancer have been devastated by the news that the tumour still remains.

Florence was first diagnosed when she was just 16 months old with stage four neuroblastoma.

She went through 20 rounds of chemotherapy, major surgery, stem cell transplant, five weeks of radiotherapy, and a final immunotherapy treatment which was supposed to complete the treatment.

However in November 2016 their hopes were dashed when a routine CT scan showed that the tumour was growing again, spreading to her stomach and wrapping around her blood vessels.

Rodney Jackson, 41, said they think they might have found a new way to help her.

Mr Jackson, who works in West Wickham, said: “The news that our precious little girl had cancer came as a complete body blow.

“But we were determined that this was one fight that cancer wasn’t going to win.

“The doctors have told us the tumour is too dangerous to remove and there’s nothing more they can do. But we can. And we will.

“We owe it Florence to fight on, just as she is bravely doing. But we have to act fast.

“We will now seek advice from a top neuroblastoma surgeon in New York. His name is Dr Michael. P. La Quaglia and he has a fantastic record of successfully treating cancer patients with cases similar to Florence - cases that other doctors have given up hope on.”

Mr Jackson, and wife Carolyn, 46, have set up a JustGiving page to help raise the £250K funds required for them to travel to the US and pay to have the surgery.

If you want to donate you can visit their JustGiving page here.