THE parents of a boy stricken with cancer face a race against time.

Rebecca and Dominic White-Carter have been told by doctors in Yorkshire there is no more treatment available for their son, Pierce.

Now his only hope of battling against neuroblastoma is treatment abroad – but that could cost up to £¼m.

They are waiting for doctors in Germany to give the go-ahead to take nine-year-old Pierce for a revolutionary form of treatment.

It is a form of chemotherapy called RIST therapy which works along with pills called inhibitors to boost the effects.

But the family need to raise the funds and have been overwhelmed by the support from family and friends in Huddersfield, who are busy organising fundraising events.

Cowlersley Primary School pupil Pierce was diagnosed a day before his 8th birthday with neuroblastoma, which affects the nervous system and travels to many parts of the body.

Since then he has been in and out of hospital and has undergone several rounds of gruelling chemotherapy.

His condition has fluctuated greatly, with him able to return to school at one point but also low periods when he has been very ill.

“To look at him now you would not think there was a great deal wrong with him”, said Rebecca.

“But the doctors at Leeds General Infirmary, who have been great, said there is no point carrying on with the chemo as it is having no effect”.