Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) hosts its annual Winter Meeting next week (April 4-5), bringing together experts from across the childhood cancer community. The UK's leading children's cancer meeting for professionals returns for a two-day conference of essential updates on...
A family fundraising in memory of their five-year-old son has now raised £250,000 for research into rhabdomyosarcoma. After Jake Ellis passed away from the soft tissue cancer in 2008, his parents, Jo-ann and Nick, set up Team Jake, a Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG)...
Experts from the University of Nottingham have developed a protocol for clinicians around the world which will help to close the gap between diagnosis and treatment of childhood cancer, and could increase the chance of survival from the disease.
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.
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.
Professor Hamish Wallace is a Consultant Paediatric Oncologist at the Royal Hospital for Children & Young People in Edinburgh and honorary professor at The University of Edinburgh. He explains what fertility preservation options are available for young cancer patients.
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.
Cara Smith was diagnosed with a brain tumour as a toddler. Here, she tells us how the past is helping shape her future.
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.
