For baby Summer Banks, today marks the end of a year of treatment for a rare form of cancer.

But it will be two years before her family know if she has beaten the disease.

Summer, 14 months old, was diagnosed shortly after she was born as having a rare Wilms' tumour, which affects an average of 75 children a year.

After a course of medication to shrink the tumour, the growth was removed in October, along with an affected kidney.

Now mother Nicky, of The Crescent, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, is hoping that after 11 chemotherapy injections Summer has finally beaten the disease and will go on to receive the all-clear in two years' time.

She said: "I have taken her back and forth to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and the Royal Alexandra for Sick Children in Brighton.

"She still gets upset and now sleeps with her eyes open, which she never used to do. I think it is because she is frightened.

"She has lost weight but she has been an absolute fighter. It has been so hard seeing her go though this."

Summer has three sisters aged between two and 14 and Miss Banks said she could never have gone through the treatment without the support of her own parents, brothers and sisters.

She said: "When my two-year-old saw her in hospital she just flung her arms around her and was kissing her.

"I have brothers and sisters of my own and, with my mum and dad, they have been brilliant."

To mark Summer's last chemotherapy session today and to raise money for Great Ormond Street, regulars at Miss Bank's local, the Newmarket Arms, Bear Road, have volunteered to shave off hair, beards or eyebrows in a sponsored charity night.

Pub regular Trish Barry said: "Nicky said the hospital had been so great and she wanted to give something back. I think it was my boyfriend Bob who suggested a hair shave.

"Some of the lads who are too embarrassed to get their hair shaved are having their eyebrows and beards done instead.

"We are hoping to raise as much money as possible and we are holding a raffle as well."

The hair shaving and raffle start at 7.30pm on Saturday. Everyone is welcome to come along to raise money for the hospital.