When your child is diagnosed with cancer, there are a lot of new terms, questions, and concerns. Palliative care can sound scary, but it covers far more than just end-of-life care...
April is Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month. We caught up with one of TYAC’s researchers, Dr Nicola Hughes, to learn more about cancer research for young people.
It can be difficult to navigate medical care as a young person. Learning how to ask questions and get answers takes a bit of experience and confidence. Here are some of the top tips to help.
We spoke to Lauren, who is a paediatric oncology research nurse. Find out how she helps patients on clinical trials and provides information to patients and families about research...
A whistlestop tour of seven of the key rights children have while they are in hospital, including those that are important for children with cancer, and see how these are respected.
In the UK and Ireland, over 100 childhood cancer researchers have been funded through CCLG. But what are they working on? Let's take a trip to the University of Oxford to find out...
The idea that everyone should be treated equally is great in principle – but is it enough? We look at the difference between equity and equality to see how it can affect young patients.
Childhood cancer research has increased survival rates from just three in 10 children in the 1960s to over eight in ten children today thanks to dedicated researchers. So, what's next?
Until the past couple of decades, over 98% of the human genome was thought to be ‘junk DNA’. Now, cancer researchers want to understand exactly what that DNA does...
