A childhood cancer survivor has completed a trio of running challenges to raise almost £1,600 to support other children and young people diagnosed with the disease in the future.
Professor Arturo Sala will test a promising new adult cancer treatment in neuroblastoma to find a kinder and more effective treatment options.
Professor James Arnold is creating a new type of immunotherapy that can fight solid tumours and make it easier for the immune system to help.
Professor Karim Malik aims to test a new combination of drugs that can eliminate neuroblastoma cells.
Professor Owen Williams hopes to develop a combination treatment with a revolutionary new drug that can more effectively fight acute myeloid leukaemia.
Parents have told us they would like information to give to friends. This may help them understand what they can do to help after your child has died.
Dr Harry Leitch at Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health will grow early reproductive cells in the lab to understand how germ cell tumours form and help develop new ways to test treatments.
Professor John Anderson will test a new type of CAR T cell therapy designed to help children with solid cancers.
Information about care and support to help manage and cope with side effects during treatment for cancer
In this edition of Contact, we hear from several wonderful organisations who, through their various programmes, offer valuable practical and emotional support to siblings. Experts share helpful tips, advice, strategies, and resources for adults to help them support brothers and sisters, of all ages, of a child or young person with cancer. We also hear from parents and siblings themselves, who have kindly shared the challenges they’ve faced, as well as the support they’ve received, and from whom, along the way.
