Emma Cooper’s daughter Madeleine was diagnosed with a germ cell tumour aged four. She tells us how Madeleine’s love for gymnastics helped her both physically and mentally during treatment.
Brainbow is a specialist rehabilitation service for children with brain tumours based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. Becca Knowles, specialist paediatric physiotherapist, tells us about its pilot project employing a PE teacher within its hospital school.
Debbi Rowley (left) and Lucy Waller (right) are physiotherapists at Sheffield Children’s Foundation Trust and Great Ormond Street Hospital, respectively. Here, they offer advice on things to consider before starting physical activity and tell us about some of the initiatives happening across the UK to help children with cancer move more.
Promoting physical activity in childhood cancer survivors: Using qualitative and co-design methods to inform the development of an evidence-based intervention.
Dr Peter Wright, Hayley Marriott and Dr Alba Solera-Sanchez, researchers at Oxford Brookes University, explain the benefits of staying physically active during and after treatment and explore how we can work collaboratively to improve physical activity pathways and support for children and young people.
Jake Heasman was diagnosed with a brain tumour when he was two years old, leaving him visually impaired. He tells us how his experiences of cancer helped drive him on to sporting success.
Professor Bernadette Brennan, Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, tells us what rare childhood cancers are and how they are treated.
The European Society for Paediatric Oncology (SIOP Europe) is the only pan-European organisation representing all professionals working in the field of childhood cancers. Annika Strasser, SIOP Europe Communication and Marketing Coordinator, tells us about how it fosters partnerships that are helping to push progress across international boundaries.
Ask the expert with Dr Ren Manias, Consultant Paediatric Oncologist at Southampton General Hospital, and Contact's medical adviser
