This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we are shining a spotlight on the ripple effect of childhood cancer. A cancer diagnosis doesn’t just affect the child, but the entire community around that child – from parents, siblings, relatives and friends to doctors and nurses.
A child with cancer is not alone
Advice on coronavirus for families affected by childhood cancer
If your child has cancer, or has had cancer in the past, you might be worried about how coronavirus (COVID-19) affects your child and the rest of your family. The most important thing is to follow the COVID-19 advice of:
Causes of childhood cancer
The types of cancer affecting children, as well as what causes cancer in children, are quite different to those affecting adults.
Several types of cancer are virtually unique to children, but the cancers most often seen in adults – including those of the lung, breast ...
Childhood cancer treatments
The outlook for children with cancer has improved dramatically over the last 50 years. In the early 1960s, three quarters of children diagnosed with cancer died. Today, more than three quarters of children survive. However this high overall survival rate masks wide variation between different ...
Complementary therapies
Complementary therapies are thought to be used by up to a third of cancer sufferers. These therapies may be used alongside the conventional treatments such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery, not as an alternative.
Complementary therapies are generally used to help with the symptoms of disease and the side effects of ...
Precision Medicine – genetic testing and targeted treatments.
An update from Children with Cancer UK. 7th January 2019
“We welcome the announcement of funding from NHS England for DNA testing for children with cancer to help select the best treatment.
Precision medicine has huge potential for treating cancer in a kinder, more effective ...
Stem Cell Transplantation
A stem cell transplant is used to restore normal blood cell production in people whose bone marrow has been damaged.
A stem cell transplant (SCT) allows children to have much higher doses of chemotherapy than they could otherwise tolerate. This improves the chance of curing ...
Minimal Residual Disease
Minimal Residual Disease Overview
MRD or Minimal Residual Disease refers to a level of leukaemia in which there are less than one thousand million cancer cells in the body and therefore cannot be detected by a microscope. A patient in remission (no symptoms) after treatment ...
Teenage & Young Adult (TYA) cancers
Around 2,200 15 to 24-year-olds are diagnosed with cancer every year in the UK.
This age group is referred to as ‘teenage and young adult’ or ‘TYA’.
TYA cancers bridge the gap between paediatric and adult oncology: many of the childhood cancers no longer feature ...
