This beautiful video shows a four-year-old girl ringing the cancer-free bell after battling cancer for the past three years.
Phoebe Ashfield, from Dudley, West Midlands, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia aged just seven months in 2019.
She relapsed three times during her three years of treatment.
Her mother, Emma Wyke, 30, captured the heartwarming moment her daughter rang the bell without treatment surrounded by nurses as they cheered Phoebe on and gave her a well-deserved round of applause.
At some point during Phoebe’s treatment, Emma was warned she might not make it, so that moment of ringing the bell served as a sigh of relief after years of emotional torment.
Phoebe Ashfield, from Dudley, West Midlands, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia aged just seven months in 2019 and relapsed three times during her three years of treatment
Emma said: ‘At one point during her treatment I was told she was not going to make it and she would prepare for the worst.
“It is devastating and heartbreaking to watch my little girl go through all of this.
“When Phoebe was first diagnosed I thought they had the wrong child, and that just can’t be my daughter, because all she had was a cold and a chest infection and that can’t be. not be a cancer.
Her mum captured the heartwarming moment her daughter rang the bell without treatment surrounded by nurses as they cheered Phoebe on and clapped
Phoebe relapsed three times during her three years of treatment, as she was first diagnosed when she was seven months old.
“When she finally rang the bell, it’s a mix of emotions, you want to cry tears of joy, but you still have this worry of wondering if it’s going to come back, you don’t really know how to feel.
“Phoebe started with chemotherapy, but unfortunately it wasn’t strong enough to ward off the cancer. She relapsed in June 2019 where she had to undergo Car-T therapy.
“Which involved taking her own stem cells and modifying them to fight cancer, she then relapsed again in September.
Her mother, Emma Wyke, 30, said: ‘When Phoebe was first diagnosed I thought they had the wrong child, and it just can’t be my daughter’
At some point during Phoebe’s treatment, her mother, Emma, was warned that she might not make it
Emma is now urging people to sign up to become a stem cell donor through DKMS and Anthony Nolan and said: ‘Without these selfless people, adults and children, my daughter wouldn’t be here to tell this story’
“It was successful until January 2020 when she relapsed for the third time and needed a stem cell transplant, and time was against us.
“If there’s one thing to take away from it, it’s to sign up to become a stem cell donor through DKMS and Anthony Nolan, because without these caring people, adults and children, my daughter wouldn’t be here to tell the story. this story.
“If you can sign up, you could save someone’s life.”