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May and June are always busy months for CCLG, with various events taking place for professionals in children's and young people's cancer to come together, share best practice and develop their knowledge and skills.

Trials test everything from medicines to surgeries and changes to the standard of care. They are the culmination of years of research and can only happen when there is already a great deal of evidence. But how do they actually work?

Before your child has any treatment, the doctor will explain its aims and will ask you or your child to sign a form to give permission (consent) for the hospital staff to give the treatment.

Surgery is an important part of cancer treatment. Depending on the size and position of the tumour in the body, an operation to remove it may be the first part of treatment.

Chemotherapy is the use of anti-cancer (cytotoxic) drugs to destroy cancer cells. Children usually have a combination of chemotherapy drugs.

Radiotherapy treats cancer by using high-energy rays to destroy cancer cells in a particular part of the body, while doing as little harm as possible to normal cells. The treatment is usually given in the hospital radiotherapy department as a series of short daily sessions over a few weeks.

Immunotherapy drugs target specific cancer cells.

There are many new drugs being developed for children’s cancer that work differently from the way chemotherapy works. These are often called biological agents or targeted drugs. They work by blocking a specific gene or protein that cancer cells have.