8:19am Wednesday 2nd December 2009
By Jack Royston
HARROW police cadets raised £1,000 to help a detective's daughter battle cancer.
Seven-year-old Robyn Higgins suffers from Neuroblastoma and has had chemotherapy nine times, as well as surgery to remove the tumour.
But if the cancer returns doctors say they will not be able to save her.
Unless her family can raise £300,000 to send her to America for special preventative treatment not available in this country she will have only a 40 per cent chance of survival.
Police cadets stood outside Morrisons, in Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, for six hours on Saturday and four on Sunday collecting cash for charity the Robyn Higgins Appeal.
PCSO Wendy Ladyman, who helped organise the collection, said: “The cadets were fantastic. They worked really hard and none of them are paid to do it.
“They still want to do more to help this little girl who is really poorly.”
DC Greg Higgins, based in Hendon, said: “The fundraising is going well but an awful lot more is needed.
“People have been so good. Friends, family and total strangers have been doing lots of things, from raffles, parachute jumps, parties, everything. It's very touching really.
“If anyone can help in any way it will really give a little girl the best gift ever – the gift of a chance to see next Christmas.”
The family have raised £60,000 out of £300,000 needed to pay for the preventative antibody treatment at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York.
Anyone wishing to donate money for Robyn's treatment can do so online at robynhiggins.com.
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