News & Updates

February 11th is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, which celebrates the scientific achievements of women and encourages all children to consider a future in science.

On Saturday 4 February, it is World Cancer Day. The theme for this year is ‘Close the care gap’. We take a look at what needs to be done to help children with cancer globally.

We know that cancer happens when the working of cells ‘goes wrong’ – and that this is normally due to multiple changes in the cell’s genetic code. But not all cancers have multiple changes...

Before 2022 fades into distant memory, we wanted to take a moment to look back at everything CCLG achieved this year for childhood cancer research. Let’s take a look!

Have you wondered how a researcher spends their time, or the highs and lows that come with working on children's cancer? We spoke to Maria about her work...

As a charity, CCLG has to carefully plan and balance how to spend our money so it will help children with cancer in the best way possible. Research is expensive, so find out why we do it...

Chemotherapy – there’s no denying it’s a scary-sounding word. But, despite the heart-breaking images that it can conjure, it has saved the lives of many people diagnosed with cancer.

Many people agree that research is vital to changing the future for childhood cancer. But did you know that a lot of research can’t happen without actual cancer samples?

In cancer research, ‘models’ can be naturally existing or artificially created such as single cancer cells, fruit flies with genetic mutations, or other more complicated organisms.