A SCHOOLBOY, whose family crowdfunded for specialist cancer treatment abroad, has been told he is still free from cancer after five months.

At the end of last year, Worcestershire and the West Midlands came together with the Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust to fundraise over half a million pounds to fund potentially lifesaving treatment for Oscar Saxelby-Lee.

The massive Hand in Hand for Oscar campaign came after Oscar, six, had exhausted treatment options in the UK and his parents, Olivia Saxelby and Jaime Lee, were told any further treatments would not cure him.

Oscar was only the second child in the world to receive groundbreaking personalised treatment for T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and had to fly to Singapore to receive it. Up until now, it has only been available for children with B-cell ALL.

His latest test results, revealed by his parents today, show that he is still cancer free five months on from receiving his Car-T cell treatment.

Jen Kelly from the Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust said: "The team at the Grace Kelly Trust are so proud to have been able to have played a key part in the campaign of Oscar Saxelby Lee in fundraising for life saving treatment in Singapore. We worked tirelessly alongside a great team to make this possible and we are absolutely delighted when Oscar's mother contacted us with this news today. It is truly heart-warming."

The Trust added that more research needed to be done into Oscar's particular cancer and it was unlikely to be a routinely used treatment until a lot more testing is done, but that Oscar's journey proves that it has potential.

Oscar's mum and dad posted on The Hand in Hand for Oscar page: "That’s nearly 5 months without disease. What an absolute super boy you are Ozzy Bear!

"This is your time now darling - home is getting closer and closer each day. You are quite simply AMAZING!

"Thank you everyone from the bottom of our hearts for helping us through! And to our amazing oncology team at National University Hospital, we love YOU!"