Charity news

We have joined with 50 other cancer charities to form One Cancer Voice. This weekend One Cancer Voice  has made the urgent call for the Comprehensive Spending Review to deliver Government commitments to improve cancer survival and care.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Will you help us to raise awareness? This year we’re focussing on the side effects that affect children and young people long after their treatment finishes. We’re working hard to improve treatments so that children will have the chance to not only survive their cancer, but to go on and lead healthy lives and fulfil their dreams.

Find out what we’re doing in September and how you can help.

We’re funding new research, led by Professor Tariq Enver, a world leader in the field of leukaemia.

Current treatments for children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) are highly toxic meaning children may  suffer long term side effects.

This project aims to develop more targeted and less toxic therapies which will reduce the toxic effects on the rest of the body.

Children and young people living with cancer from across the West Midlands, Oxfordshire and parts of Southern England will now benefit from improved genetic testing, thanks to a seven-figure donation to Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity from Children with Cancer UK, in partnership with Kwik-Fit.

Cancer Research UK and Children with Cancer UK are joining forces to fund five teams of world-leading scientists. Each team has been awarded up to £1 million to delve into the biology of children’s and young people’s cancers.