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CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association has funded three new solid tumour research projects.

A toolkit to help support Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month on social media.

Layla Jane Bartlett was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in January 2025 when she was 22 years old. This Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month (TYACAM), she shares her story.

An Arnos Grove family’s fundraising in memory of their six-year-old son has helped fund four new research projects into childhood leukaemia.

In this section we consider what happens when you face birthdays, other festivals and anniversaries of the diagnosis and when your child died. We suggest what has been found to be helpful by other families, what they have done to mark special occasions and how to think about all the different members of the family.

An Isleham family’s fundraising in memory of their four-year-old son who died from cancer has helped fund two new research projects into the disease.

The next Paediatric Oncology GRID Teaching Session is entitled "The Midline Travelers: Where Germ Cells Go Wrong", and will take place on Thursday 14 May from 1.30pm - 4pm, via Zoom.

Dr Jodie Bojko at the University of Bristol hopes to understand how genetic instructions are altered in neuroblastoma, and how this impacts the cancer.

Dr Supriti Ghosh at The Institute of Cancer Research hopes to learn more about how to use tiny fragments of DNA from the blood to monitor rhabdomyosarcoma.

Dr Alina Pandele at the University of Nottingham hopes to find fragments cancer cell genetic code in the blood which can help doctors know when ependymoma grows back.