New tools released to help diagnose childhood bone cancer faster
CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association’s flagship awareness campaign, Child Cancer Smart, has released new guidance on childhood bone cancers today.
What it means to be a cancer research nurse for teenagers and young adults – with Helen Trower
There are many types of nurses, each playing a vital role in supporting children and young people through cancer. This week, we spoke to Helen Trower, a research nurse at the Weston Park Cancer Clinical Trials Centre in Sheffield...
CCLG Research Talks: How does neuroblastoma genetics help us treat patients?
We talk to Professor Deborah Tweddle about how understanding more about genetics has helped treatment for neuroblastoma.
Can we improve how brain tumours are diagnosed?
Diagnosis is a scary time for families, full of unknowns. So how can we make diagnosis quicker and more accurate? Our researchers have some exciting ideas...
CCLG Research Talks: Are you Child Cancer Smart?
Dr Shaarna Shanmugavadivel explains Child Cancer Smart, our new campaign aiming to improve childhood cancer diagnosis times.
CCLG Research Talks: How did children and families help set childhood cancer research priorities?
Susie Aldiss talks about the top ten research priorities in childhood cancer and what's next for this project.
Little Princess Trust funding boosts brain tumour research
CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association has supported The Little Princess Trust (LPT) in funding two new research projects that aim to improve treatment and care for children and people with brain tumours.
Could it be cancer? National awareness campaign urges parents to trust their instincts on childhood symptoms
A new childhood cancer awareness campaign, Child Cancer Smart, has been launched today by CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association and researchers at the University of Nottingham aiming to speed up diagnosis and improve survival for children and teenagers with cancer.
New discovery links circular DNA by-products to childhood leukaemia relapse
A Little Princess Trust-funded research project has found that a previously overlooked type of circular DNA may explain why some children with leukaemia relapse.