Living beyond childhood cancer and its treatments
This year, for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month (CCAM), CCLG has been working hard to raise awareness of the long-term impact of childhood cancer and its treatments.
How huge funding is helping support children’s cancer research units
The Little Princess Trust (LPT) forges important partnerships with other charities, such as CCLG, to further children’s cancer research. Its Chief Executive Phil Brace tells us how the LPT has come together with Cancer Research UK to help more young people access clinical trials.
Using next-generation gene technology to help children with blood cancers in low-income countries
Defining the molecular landscape of paediatric and adolescent acute leukaemia in Tanzania
Celebrating 40 years of care in Wales
LATCH Welsh Children’s Cancer Charity supports children and young people with cancer and their families who are under the care of the Children’s Hospital for Wales. As it celebrates its 40th anniversary, LATCH’s CEO, Menai Owen-Jones, reflects on its achievements over the past four decades.
Ask the expert: Naomi Shefford-Thomas, CCLG’s Health Information Officer
Naomi Shefford-Thomas, CCLG's Health Information Officer, discusses the importance of accessible information, how it works, and the steps CCLG is taking to make its health resources more inclusive and available to everyone.
A parent's view... why raising funds and awareness is important to us
Nicky Levent’s son, Sam, was diagnosed with retinoblastoma when he was 18 months old. She explains what it means to her family to raise funds for charities and awareness of childhood cancer, and how it’s helped them.
Knowledge is power: The awareness campaign aiming to accelerate diagnosis
Child Cancer Smart is a public health intervention aiming to empower both the public and healthcare professionals with knowledge about childhood cancer symptoms. Dr Shaarna Shanmugavadivel, CCLG Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham and part of the project team, tells us more.
Getting the ending right: feeling prepared to move into survivorship care when active treatment finishes
Lead investigator Susie Aldiss, a research fellow at the University of Surrey, discusses her research, which is funded by a £92,000 award from CCLG.
iCanMove: The physical activity pathway helping children and young people stay active during treatment
Louise Graham is a clinical specialist paediatric physiotherapist at The Great North Children’s Hospital. She tells us about how she created a physical activity pathway to help children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) stay active, and how she hopes to develop this to support all CYP with cancer.