Adelaide family explores clinical drug trials overseas to access treatment for toddler’s rare cancer

It’s not the best time to be travelling internationally but, for the parents of an Adelaide toddler battling a rare form of cancer, going overseas is a necessity they might not be able to avoid.

Three-year-old Sophie Stephenson is undergoing gruelling treatment for stage four neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer affecting about 40 children each year in Australia.

The Stephenson family was told the cancer had spread from Sophie’s abdomen to other parts of her body when she was just 19 months old.

Sophie went through various cancer treatments over a period of 18 months before doctors referred to her as having “no evidence of disease”.

Three months later, a routine scan showed that Sophie had a tumour in the temporal lobe of her…