As part of Cat Macleod’s role as a Young Lives vs Cancer social worker, she helps families plan and access trips and holidays while their child is on treatment. She explains the positive impact these breaks can have, and things to consider beforehand.
Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG)’s Big Play Date is back for 2021! From today (May 29) until the end of June, supporters are invited to have some fun while raising much-needed funds for childhood cancer by holding their very own play dates.
The TYAC Professional Education Group (PEG) organised a poetry experience with Beth Calverley as a creative activity for professionals, knowing the extra pressure that COVID has brought them.
Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) has joined 46 other charities in calling upon the UK and devolved nations’ governments to put cancer patients at the centre of their COVID-19 recovery plans.
Shielding...a term unknown until March 2020! Tash Larcombe, whose nine-year-old son, Finley, has leukaemia, writes on what shielding has been like for her and her family.
Eating well during treatment is really important as a well-nourished child is able to cope better with their treatment and fight infection. It will also help their body repair healthy body tissues that have been damaged by chemotherapy or radiotherapy. By Louise Henry, Paediatrics Senior Specialist Dietitian at Royal Marsden
Dr Bob Phillips describes how decisions are made in children’s cancer care, and how it can feel when the choices aren’t so obvious.
Emily Zobel Marshall describes some of the choices her family made after her daughter, Rose, was diagnosed with leukaemia in March 2018
CCLG’s trailblazing and innovative Special Named Funds (SNFs) programme provides a positive platform for families, friends and communities to raise funds in the name of a child affected by cancer. Carly tells us more.
