Leukaemia, also spelled leukemia, is a cancer of the white blood cells. White blood cells are part of the body’s immune system and help fight infection. In leukaemia, the bone marrow, the spongy tissue inside bones where blood cells are made, produces abnormal white blood cells. These abnormal cells crowd out healthy blood cells, which […]
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As it is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month & Blood Cancer Awareness Month, I thought I’d do an A to Z on childhood cancer. This won’t be exhaustive as I’m only going to highlight one thing per letter of the alphabet but I hope that it will raise awareness of what life is like for a family living with
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Receiving a childhood cancer diagnosis changes your entire life instantly, not only do you need to come to terms with that but you also need to learn what feels like an entirely new language of medical jargon so that you know what’s going on. This cancer terms glossary explains what these words and acronyms mean.
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During our journey, we have been fortunate enough to receive help and support from a number of childhood cancer charities. Quite a few of these I had never heard of until we needed them but I will be forever grateful for all they have done for us. Here are the childhood cancer charities that have
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Friday 4th February was World Cancer Day. Ironically, this was the day our world changed literally overnight as we found out that our child has cancer. More specifically, our little boy has B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL). This is rare, less than 500 children per year are diagnosed with it however if you are going
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