Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is a common — and often costly — problem among patients with cancer. Chemotherapy is the use of specific drugs, administered by a paediatric oncologist, to destroy cancer cells by preventing the cancer cells from growing and dividing to make more new cells. Cancer cells generally grow and divide much faster […]
Complementary and Alternative Therapies: What You Need to Know
It’s impossible to describe the pure, desperate frustration that is a fact of daily life when you have a child with cancer. Here at the Little Fighters Cancer Trust we know what parents go through because we hear the stories every day, and we follow each of our Little Fighters’ battles. When the bad news […]
The Agony of Childhood Brain Cancer
Many years ago it was thought that cancer was an “old person’s disease,” and unfortunately some people still think that it is… Cancer is not an old person’s disease; it is a disease that strikes at any age and affects everyone, irrespective of gender or race. Virtually every single person on this planet has been […]
New Service Transforms Childhood Cancer Treatment
Children with cancer in the UK are to benefit nationally from a service which for the first time will allow doctors to personalise their treatment. The therapeutic drug monitoring service, developed by Newcastle University experts, allows clinicians to obtain vital information about how much chemotherapy individual young patients should receive. Youngsters diagnosed with cancer, […]
What does The RACE for Children Act Mean?
Most paediatric cancer patients are subjected to treatments that are not designed for a child’s developing body. This is because there has been too little research into Childhood Cancer and too few new medications to treat childhood cancer. According to the Coalition against Childhood Cancer, a mere 4 % of America’s National Cancer Institute’s budget […]
The Inimitable Dr Audrey Evans, Modern Hero
Dr. Audrey Evans is a world-renowned oncologist whose career has spanned more than 60 years. As the co-founder of the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House (1974), the first Ronald McDonald House in the world that led to the creation of Ronald McDonald House Charities, and the co-founder of St. James School (2011), a faith-based middle school […]
This candle burns for Little Fighters who lost the Battle
🎗Always in our Hearts 🎗
