People help raise £340,000 for a teenage girl who has battled cancer for three years and is finally given the all-clear following surgery in the US

Her battle 

Kira was 11 and had been suffering from abdominal pain when doctors diagnosed neuroblastoma. She underwent 15 months of chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy before going into remission in October 2015.

The cancer returned in early 2016. After further treatment she went into remission again, but a routine scan last year showed the tumour was growing again.

Kira had more chemotherapy and then surgery in January but all of the 'glue-like' mass from her right adrenal gland could not be removed. 

Refusing to give up, her mother and father Ronnie, helped by the charity Solving Kids' Cancer, tirelessly researched possible treatments and discovered a surgeon who specialised in the complex and costly treatment she needed.

The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - the biggest neuroblastoma unit in the world - was her best hope.

 

A 14-year-old girl who has battled cancer for three years has been given the all-clear following life-changing £340,000 surgery in the US.

Kira Noble has already endured six gruelling rounds of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and major abdominal surgery in her fight against neuroblastoma. 

It is the same cancer that killed Bradley Lowery, the six-year-old who earned the admiration of millions across the world before he passed away last July.  

Surgeons in the UK were unable to remove Kira's tumour, forcing her family to raise  hundreds of thousands of pounds to get an appointment with a world-class surgeon.

And last month, she had her tumour taken out after a seven-hour operation at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York.

Kira, who spent almost three weeks in the Big Apple before returning home to Edinburgh with her mother Aud, yesterday received the all-clear via e-mail. 

Mrs Noble, 51, said she had high hopes for the surgery and the results don't come as much of a surprise. She added: 'We are over the moon.

'However, I'm not surprised because we gave Kira the best possible chance with this surgeon. That is why we flew across the Atlantic for her to have the operation.

'I surprisingly wasn't too nervous reading the report. It was more excitement.

'It is the best possible result that we could ever have hoped for at the moment and it is fantastic news.'

The teenager captured hearts across the world, with the Noble family managing to smash their target by more than £100,000.

A total of £437,000 was raised to pay for Kira's trip to have specialised surgery for neuroblastoma, which strikes around 100 young people in the UK each year.

The family are under no illusion none of this would have been possible without the immense public backing during her cancer battle.

Mrs Noble said: 'We just cannot thank the public enough. It covers me in goosebumps thinking about the magnitude of the total that has been raised.

'There is money still pouring in, which is phenomenal. There are no words to sum up how thankful we are to everyone who has helped us reach this stage.

'Kira is not on top form at the moment because she is suffering from some abdominal pains, but she is over the moon with the news.'