Understanding the challenges of growing up with treatment-related hearing loss
Our research projects cover the whole cancer journey from learning about how cancer cells grow to improving everyday life for patients and survivors.
Hope after loss
Gayle Routledge, mum to Lewis who sadly died of cancer aged two in 2010 and founder of bereavement charity A Child of Mine, tells us how his memory inspires all that she does now.
60 seconds with Professor Kathy Pritchard-Jones
The President of International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) and long-standing CCLG member, talks to us about her work.
Ask the Expert
Nicky Webb, Clinical Nurse Specialist for the long-term follow-up of survivors of childhood cancer and joint Chair of the Children’s After Cure Nurses UK Group.
How my cancer journey led me to a career in research
Dr Catherine Pointer was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2006, aged 14. She tells us how her experiences inspired her to become a cancer researcher, working alongside one of the doctors who treated her.
Accepting the past and looking to the future
Cara Smith was diagnosed with a brain tumour as a toddler. Here, she tells us how the past is helping shape her future.
"Life is about moments - don’t wait for them, create them”
Lee Brennan, 48, found fame as the singer of '911' in the late 1990s. He was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma as a 9-year-old, before relapsing aged 15, and he tells us how his cancer experience has influenced a new vocation.
Understanding late effects to improve the lives of childhood cancer survivors
Dr Rachel Cox, is a consultant paediatric oncologist and Chair of CCLG’s Late Effects Group. She tells us what late effects are, and how the work of the group is helping to improve the quality of life for survivors of childhood cancer.
“I want to help people in the same situation I was once in”
Jack Hamilton was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2010, aged seven. Now at university studying medicine, he explains how he hopes to fulfil his dream of becoming an oncologist.