A vital new research project funded by a Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) Special Named Fund will investigate the effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy on children's developing brains.
Fundraising in memory of a south London teenager has now raised more than £250,000 for research into children’s blood cancer.
The LPT works with CCLG to fund research, using our expertise to select the most impactful research projects and manage their extensive research programme. With the latest seven projects, the LPT has funded over £25 million of research through the CCLG Research Funding Network.
George Radcliffe passed away in October 2023, having been diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma in May 2022, when he was three. To raise funds for research into rhabdomyosarcoma, his parents, Lisa and David, set up the Special Named Fund Just George at Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG), and incredibly, have since raised the huge sum in just 10 months.
CCLG funds new rhabdomyosarcoma research, thanks to Special Named Funds.
Today (1 September) marks the beginning of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month (CCAM). This year, in addition to raising awareness of childhood cancer and its signs and symptoms, CCLG is shining a light on research and how, without it, progress in its treatment and care would not be...
Samuel Priestley was 14 years old when diagnosed with pilocytic astrocytoma in 2018. After almost four years of intense treatments and operations, Samuel passed away in February 2022, aged 18.
Jamie BartlettBundy, from Hassocks, is taking on the challenge in memory of Pearl, who passed away in 2017 after being diagnosed with a form of bone cancer called Ewing sarcoma.
Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) has funded a new research project which aims to find a faster way to detect relapse in an aggressive type of brain tumour.
