Fundraiser for three-year-old battling cancer
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PRINCE GEORGE – A fundraiser will be held on May 23 at the Rona on Cowart Road in support of Mavrik Turnbull, a 3.5 year old who has been battling high-risk neuroblastoma, a type of cancer, since October of 2024.
“As of February, we were set to come home. He had completed his treatment for the initial high-risk neuroblastoma. Since then, he relapsed the day we were coming home and they found a new tumor growth off of his right kidney. So since then, he’s done two rounds of chemo, which they found that the tumor was resistant to the chemo, It didn’t really affect him or do anything to the tumor. So they went in for surgery, they removed his right kidney, the tumor, there was a lymph node that was lighting up, and whatever other pieces that were left from the previous tumor, they hopefully got as much as they could,” explained Derek Turnbull, Mavrik’s father.
(Image Credit: Derek Turnbull)
That relapse now has the Turnbull family preparing to travel to Boston this upcoming Monday, where Mavrik will spend around seven weeks receiving specialized radiation treatment. Despite this setback, Derek says Mavrik and the family are trying to keep it positive.
