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A four-year-old boy from Shropshire underwent the first stage of treatment in the United States after a fundraising campaign.
The parents of Broseley's Zac Oliver, who has a rare strain of leukemia, had paid £ 500,000 for her treatment.
After reaching their target, the family is in the United States where cells of their blood were collected during the first stage of their therapy.
His father, Mark Garbett, said the trip had "made it all real".
Zac was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in May and would be the only child in the UK to suffer from the nearly haploid strain of the disease, a disease that only affects one in every 200 patients with childhood leukemia in the world. world.
His family took him to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where doctors said his T-cell treatment in CAR would give Zac a 60-80% chance of survival.
NHS England has been contacted to comment on why Zac can not be treated in the UK.
His family claimed that he was not eligible because his condition did not meet the criteria set by the NHS.
After going to the hospital on November 12, his T cells were removed as part of the therapy, which involves using patients' own immune cells to treat their cancer.
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Zac is now preparing to return to the UK while the hospital is preparing the cells. He will return for the next stage of treatment in four to eight weeks.
Mr. Garbett said, "This first part went very well.
"We came to this new US city, everyone was really friendly and helpful, which was a real asset."
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Zac is believed to be the only child in the UK to have the almost haploid strain of the disease
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