A LITTLE girl who was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of cancer is still smiling through the last of her gruelling treatment.

Aalish Naylor, six, is now undergoing immunotherapy at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, to help her body recognise and fight cancerous cells in the future.

It involves a regular cycle of injections and a ten-day antibody treatment which helps her immune system.

Aalish, who was diagnosed with nerve cell cancer neuroblastoma last December, is the first child to undergo the intense treatment at Sheffield, which causes high temperature, and she has had to be given morphine for pain relief.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle