A MUM has issued a heart-breaking update after receiving the devastating news her daughter’s cancer has returned.

The huge ‘Get Beau to Sloan’ campaign raised hundreds of thousands of pounds to help five-year-old Beau, from Liversedge, go to the Memorial Sloan Cancer Centre in New York to receive treatment for neuroblastoma.

But because Beau has relapsed, the treatment in America will now have to be postponed.

In an update on the Beau’s Fight Against Cancer Facebook page, her mum Shirley Hepworth said: “When I launched this campaign on Christmas Eve, I talked about the stats associated with refractory and relapse of neuroblastoma.

“We knew when we started this was a rocky path to recovery with an uncertain future for our children. Thank you to all of you, we have raised an outstanding amount of money for Solving Kids Cancer and for my little Beau to access additional therapies currently unavailable as frontline treatment.

“Unfortunately, Beau will now not be in a position to go to America just yet. On Friday, after a week of tests and scans with a 10-day infusion remaining of her treatment I was told the devastating news that Beau had relapsed and her cancer had returned, evident in multiple sites across her gorgeous little body.

“Our aim at this time with the information that we have is to once again stabilise Beau’s disease in the kindest possible way, do all we can to eradicate it and then with hope in the future be in a position to consider maintenance therapies such as the Bivalent vaccine in Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital that will keep this horrific disease at bay.”

She added: “I cannot tell you how grateful I am for all of the hard work, dedication and love that has gone into everything that you have all done and continue to do to help raise funds for my beautiful Beau and Solving Kids’ Cancer.”

When Beau’s treatment target was reached, it was announced that any extra funds raised would go to the Solving Kids’ Cancer charity.

Shirley added: “However unknown this next part of Beau’s journey is, we feel blessed that thanks to you we now have the financial comfort to consider all of the possible therapies for Beau to once again fight this disease.

“I continue to work with Leeds Children’s Hospital and Solving Kids Cancer to understand our options and what will give Beau the happiest life with the best possible outcomes.”

“We feel loved and strengthened as we move into the next stage of Beau’s journey and for that we will be forever grateful.

“We don’t know what the future holds but we will continue this fight. A wise tree once told me ‘once you choose hope, anything is possible’. We choose HOPE.”