Nikita Moore

Republished from the Somerset Guardian, 12th October 2006

The fight to save 11-year-old Nikita Moore’s life is now entering an important stage, with a hospital visit today set to determine whether her tumours have changed in size.Nikita, from Peasedown St John, has suffered from several different types of cancer during her life and was given three months to live by her doctor in August.

She is suffering from a synovial sarcoma, a cancer on her head that has spread to her lung.

Despite this, Nikita continues to thrive on an organic, alkaline diet, herbal supplements and a course of Issels vaccines collected during her visit to a North American clinic in August.

In a bid to boost her daughter’s immune system, Nikita’s mother Tracey Trezise is spending hundreds of pounds each week on bottles of concentrated green vegetables, in tablet form; bottles of Zeolite, taken from live volcanoes, which works by absorbing toxins in the body; and pH drops to add to drinking water to make it alkaline.

“She looks so well at the moment, we are just trying everything to keep her alive,” said Mrs Trezise.

“Nikita’s courage, strength and determination is making this worthwhile. My little girl has the will and as long as she has, so must I.”

The family say they have been overwhelmed by the support of residents since the Somerset Guardian reported in June that they were remortgaging their house to pay for sessions of Issels treatment, an alternative cancer therapy developed by Dr Josef Issels in the 1950s.

The figure raised through fundraising now stands at £17,273.82, with money still coming in.

With these funds, Nikita has received treatment and supplements in a Californian clinic and is due to return in February.

But the desperate search for alternative treatments continues for Nikita’s parents.

Mrs Trezise and husband Nicholas are now considering a feotal stem cell transplant in the Dominican Republic, at a cost of 25,000, about £13,455.

The fundraising campaign has been given a huge boost as another benefactor has stepped forward, pledging to raise £50,000 by encouraging people to take part in a sponsored abseil down Eagle Tower, the tallest building in Cheltenham.

The kind-hearted supporter is Mel Griffin, the head of European property investment at Eagle Strategic Land in Cheltenham, which has so far donated £2,000 to the family.

The date of the abseil has been set for November 18 and 19, and Mr Griffin is proposing to be the first to abseil down the 150ft building.

“I’m terrified of heights so my younger brother Craig has said he will give me £3,000 if I am the first to jump,” he said.

Mr Griffin has already received pledges of £15,000 from his friends, family and business associates.

He has also organised for Simon Treselyan, a Reiki practitioner, to fly over from his home in Australia and treat Nikita on Monday October 23.

Mr Treselyan will also take part in the abseil attempt in November.