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Your £10 a month…
… could help pay for methods of reprograming T-Cells that help them target cancer.
Your £10 a month…
… could pay for around three hours of confocal microscopy, which is used to create highly detailed images of cancer cells.
Your £15 a month…
…could give children like Dulcie access to kinder treatments with less side effects.
Your £10 today…
…could help fund research into better, kinder treatments for children like Dulcie.
Your £20 today…
… could buy tailored chemicals for gene sequencing, which help researchers to detect cancer-causing DNA mutations.
Your £40 today…
…could help fund research fellowships, so more scientists like Dr Clifford can focus on their work to develop better and safer treatments for children.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Your gift today could help to fund research to develop better, kinder treatments that give children like Dulcie facing cancer the chance to achieve their dreams.
Cancer should never get in the way of a child’s future. Sadly, 2 out of 3 childhood cancer survivors will experience lifelong side effects because of their cancer or its treatment. This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, you can set up a regular gift, which will help fund research into developing less harmful treatments so that every child with cancer not only survives but can also grow up happy and healthy.
Cancer treatments are developed to target cancer cells and kill them. Unfortunately, they often also impact normal healthy cells in the body which can cause debilitating side effects for young patients. Sadly, 2 out of 3 childhood cancer survivors will be affected by the long-term side effects caused by their cancer or its treatment.
These long-term effects are known as late effects and whilst they will vary from individual to individual, they can include heart conditions, lung damage, cognitive impairment, as well as emotional and mental health issues.
Every child should get to enjoy growing up without suffering from the late effects of their treatment. That is why research into developing kinder and safer treatments, specifically tailored to treating childhood cancer without damaging children’s growing bodies is urgently needed.
This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, your donation will help fund vital research like this so that every child with cancer not only survives but can grow up happy and healthy. We receive no government funding, meaning without generous supporters like you, research like this may not be possible. Thank you.
Dulcie was just 5 years old when she was diagnosed with cancer. It came as such a shock because cancer was not even on our radar. No one ever expects to hear the words, “Your child has cancer,” but there we were, and in the space of 24 hours, life as we knew it was forever changed. For most of 2021, we were told Dulcie had a condition called ‘impacted faecal matter.
– Debra, Dulcie’s mum
Up until ten weeks old, I was a happy and healthy baby. It all began when my Mum, being a nurse, realised that my vision was not as it should have been, and that I had ‘sunset eyes.’ Of course, this was very alarming for my parents so they took me to my GP to get it checked out. They were advised to take me straight to hospital, where I had an MRI scan, which found a tumour in the centre of my brain. The doctors, who told my parents the news was good, said that the neurosurgeons were expecting me, and my surgery was performed the next morning.
– Libby.
Libby's brain tumour story
Libby’s was diagnosed with a brain tumour when she was just ten weeks old. Now at 19 years old, she shares her story.
Read Libby's story
Dulcie's neuroblastoma story
Dulcie was diagnosed with stage 4, high-risk neuroblastoma on 9 December 2021, when she was just five years old.
Read Dulcie's story
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