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Brave Edward has major goal after cancer diagnosis
08/02/2022
A football-mad Gloucestershire schoolboy is battling back against a devastating cancer diagnosis by trying to raise £100,000 for Brain Tumour Research..
Edward Simpson, aged 12, a pupil at Deer Park School in Cirencester, was handed a very different year to the one he had planned as he started his new school with a tragic cancer diagnosis.
Edward Simpson, aged 12, a pupil at Deer Park School in Cirencester, was handed a very different year to the one he had planned as he started his new school with a tragic cancer diagnosis.
But in the face of considerable adversity, Edward chose to fight and is now campaigning to raise vital funds for much-needed medical research.
Edward received his diagnosis of his brain tumour three days into starting his new secondary school. He endured nine operations in total and spent more than 140 nights at Gloucester, Bristol and Great Ormond Street hospitals.
He went through six weeks of high dose brain and spine radiotherapy and six months of intensive chemotherapy cycles. If this wasn’t enough, following this gruelling course of treatment plan, Edward had to learn to walk and talk again. Although this was a huge struggle for Edward, and for his family to watch, they were grateful there was a treatment plan at all.
Edward said: “Whilst going through all this, it shocked me to learn that, despite being the number one cancer killer of children and adults under 40, brain tumour research is drastically underfunded when compared to all other cancer types.
“This means that many of the treatments are old and brutal, with long-term and devastating side effects, and for some tumour types there is no treatment at all. I have therefore made it my mission to try and do something to help.”
Football helped keep Edward going through his months of hospital stays and this very brave young man has made it his mission to complete 100 penalty kicks in 100 locations to raise money for Brain Tumour Research.
From the London Eye to Swindon Football Club, he has persevered with his ‘100 Strikes’ campaign (sometimes with just jumpers for goalposts!) and so far has achieved 23 of his 100 strikes and in turn, has raised a whopping £42,585 of his £100,000 target.
All of the money raised by Edward will go directly to Brain Tumour Research to try to help find a treatment for brain cancers, which are currently devastating and the treatments are brutal.
Edward’s plea is: “We need to find better ways to manage and cure these horrible diseases. I don’t want any other child (or adult) to go through this. Every penny will help.”
To donate towards Edwards goal, head to https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/100edwardsimpson or for more information about Edward’s story, take a look at his new website at
https://www.100strikesatcancer.org/
Edward received his diagnosis of his brain tumour three days into starting his new secondary school. He endured nine operations in total and spent more than 140 nights at Gloucester, Bristol and Great Ormond Street hospitals.
He went through six weeks of high dose brain and spine radiotherapy and six months of intensive chemotherapy cycles. If this wasn’t enough, following this gruelling course of treatment plan, Edward had to learn to walk and talk again. Although this was a huge struggle for Edward, and for his family to watch, they were grateful there was a treatment plan at all.
Edward said: “Whilst going through all this, it shocked me to learn that, despite being the number one cancer killer of children and adults under 40, brain tumour research is drastically underfunded when compared to all other cancer types.
“This means that many of the treatments are old and brutal, with long-term and devastating side effects, and for some tumour types there is no treatment at all. I have therefore made it my mission to try and do something to help.”
Football helped keep Edward going through his months of hospital stays and this very brave young man has made it his mission to complete 100 penalty kicks in 100 locations to raise money for Brain Tumour Research.
From the London Eye to Swindon Football Club, he has persevered with his ‘100 Strikes’ campaign (sometimes with just jumpers for goalposts!) and so far has achieved 23 of his 100 strikes and in turn, has raised a whopping £42,585 of his £100,000 target.
All of the money raised by Edward will go directly to Brain Tumour Research to try to help find a treatment for brain cancers, which are currently devastating and the treatments are brutal.
Edward’s plea is: “We need to find better ways to manage and cure these horrible diseases. I don’t want any other child (or adult) to go through this. Every penny will help.”
To donate towards Edwards goal, head to https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/100edwardsimpson or for more information about Edward’s story, take a look at his new website at
https://www.100strikesatcancer.org/
