Ask the Expert: Caroline Brown
Caroline Brown, Lead Complementary Therapist for Paediatrics, Teenagers and Young Adults at The Royal Marsden Hospital
How is ambulatory care improving young people’s experiences of treatment?
Dr Alison Finch is a nurse and researcher from University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). She explains how ambulatory care is positively impacting young people’s experiences of treatment and how a CCLG Special Interest Group has been formed to develop this care nationally.
Therapeutic drug monitoring: A novel approach to improving treatment
Gareth Veal, Professor of Cancer Pharmacology at the Newcastle University Cancer Centre, leads a team helping doctors to personalise treatments through an innovative process called ‘therapeutic drug monitoring’. Here, he tells us more about his work.
60 seconds with Pritesh Patel
Pritesh Patel, Senior Specialist Pharmacist in Paediatric Cancer at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and CCLG member
Understanding the evolution of neuroblastoma to improve treatment
Single-cell transcriptomics linked to lineage tracing to interrogate the role of intra-tumour heterogeneity in shaping therapeutic susceptibility and resistance in paediatric cancer
How the latest treatments come about through clinical trials
New and innovative cancer treatments go through many steps to make their way from ‘bench to bedside’. Professor Pamela Kearns, Dr Sarah Al-Jilaihawi and Dr Jessica Douglas-Pugh from the University of Birmingham’s Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit (CRCTU) explain more about this process.
Molecular radiotherapy for children’s cancers
Molecular radiotherapy (MRT) is an evolving form of children’s cancer treatment. Dr Mark Gaze, Caroline Elmagrahi and Georgia Azzopardi, of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, tell us more about what it is and what work is being done to develop its usage.
The Little Princess Trust has funded exciting new projects through CCLG
The Little Princess Trust (LPT) has announced 10 new research projects that will improve outcomes for children with cancer, awarded in partnership with Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG).
Spotlight on the University of Oxford - how are our experts tackling childhood cancer?
In the UK and Ireland, over 100 childhood cancer researchers have been funded through CCLG. But what are they working on? Let's take a trip to the University of Oxford to find out...