
Eight top tips to advocate for yourself in cancer care
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.
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.
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.
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...
When you hear ‘skin cancer’ you probably think about years of exposure to sun. The average patient is 65 years old when they are diagnosed, but it's also a common cancer for young people...
Cancer is caused by something going wrong in a cell’s genetic code. However, it’s not always clear where these errors come from - were they inherited or are they new?
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?
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...
In cancer research, ‘models’ can be naturally existing or artificially created such as single cancer cells, fruit flies with genetic mutations, or other more complicated organisms.
When someone is diagnosed with cancer, they will often be given chemotherapy to try and kill the cancer. But what is chemotherapy?
Ask loved ones to donate to our work instead of gifts and help us to beat childhood cancer.