Almost 4,000 children and young people are diagnosed with cancer every year in the UK. That’s ten every day.
Louis was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at just 19 months old. The cancer affected Louis’ ability to fight infection. It swept through his body with horrifying speed and Louis could have died within months.
After three gruelling years of treatment, Louis’ mum heard the words she had longed for – “Louis is in remission”. But many other children with cancer are not so lucky. One in five children die as they do not receive effective treatment.
You could help fund vital new research into childhood cancer and help to save the life of a child like Louis.
A gift from you could help fund an exciting new approach to fighting childhood cancer called Precision Medicine. This type of treatment uses genetics to help doctors tailor treatment to the individual tumours found in children.
By targeting our approach like this we can greatly reduce the damage that cancer drugs do to young bodies and help many more children like Louis survive cancer.
We need your support today to help reach our goal of giving all children with cancer in the UK access to Precision Medicine by 2020.
