This Christmas, help change what children wish for

While many children wish for toys and presents at Christmas, children like Leighton are wishing for something very different.

Your gift could help fund research into kinder, more targeted cancer treatments, so that children can not only survive cancer, but thrive.

Leighton’s Christmas wishes aren’t what you might expect

While many children wish for toys and presents at Christmas, Leighton wishes he could hear his teacher without his hearing aids. He wishes he didn’t need daily injections. He wishes for a childhood without fear.

Leighton survived a brain tumour. But the treatment he received left him with hearing loss, weakness on his left side and permanent damage to his pituitary gland.

“Despite all Leighton’s illness and side effects from treatment he continues to smile and take everything in his stride” Leighton’s dad, Phil, tells us.

Children deserve more than the chance to survive cancer. They deserve to thrive.

Your donation could help fund research into kinder, more targeted treatments, helping to give children diagnosed in the future the chance to survive cancer without facing the same lifelong consequences as Leighton.

2 in 10 children with cancer still don’t survive. Yet, just 2% of cancer research funding in the UK goes to childhood cancer projects

That’s why every £1 you give matters.

You fund breakthroughs that wouldn’t happen without donations – giving more children the chance to grow up, and more families the hope of cancer-free Christmases.

This Christmas, you could help change what children with cancer have to wish for.

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How you are helping

With your generous support, we can fund vital research into childhood cancer and work towards treatments that are more effective and less harmful.

Professor Steve Clifford and his team are developing new approaches to treating high-risk medulloblastoma

Their research, co-funded by Children with Cancer UK, is investigating treatments designed to attack specific features of the tumour while causing less damage to healthy cells.

This could mean more effective treatment, with fewer lifelong side effects for children like Leighton.

Your gift could help fund the pioneering research that makes change possible.

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