We remain hopeful: Mass. family refuses to give up on 3-year-old with cancer [Video]

While battling an aggressive pediatric stomach cancer, doctors began fearing chemotherapy was becoming too toxic for a 3-year-old boy from Martha’s Vineyard. Instead, they turned to a new clinical trial in Boston in an effort to save his life.

William, or Billy, Fournier, was diagnosed in May 2023 with hepatoblastoma, a common type of liver cancer that affects children under the age of 3, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Week after week, Billy underwent blood and platelet transfusions, sedated scans and rounds of chemotherapy with his parents by his side.

In the year since his diagnosis, his parents Adam and Ryann Fournier took action while Billy’s uncle Tad Gold set up a GoFundMe to financially support the couple and Billy’s 7-year-old brother Freeman — “Pookie,” as Billy calls him — as they spend more time with their son in and out of Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and away from the Cape.

In November, …