Hi Folks, We are getting some food donations in but also need financial donations so that we can buy FRESH veggies etc, to go with the Food Parcels. 🌽🥕🥦🍅🍗🥩🍼🥔 We need donations to be in by the 8th December to enable us to purchase and pack and send goods out by the 12th December. […]
New Drug Approved for CINV Treatment
We recently did a blogpost on Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV), a common — and often costly — problem among patients with cancer. Chemotherapy drugs are very powerful and they cause damage to many growing cells, including some healthy cells. This damage causes the side effects of chemotherapy, which can include Nausea and Vomiting; Diarrhoea; Constipation, […]
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 […]
A Gratitude Post
With our chief cook & bottlewasher, Programme Manager Mandie Erasmus laid up ill in bed (Get Well Soon, Mandie), I was asked to attend an event in honour of the Little Fighters Cancer Trust on Sunday evening, and I am very glad I was. Although, typical to Cape Town fashion, unfortunately many people who had […]
Nigeria Failing Children with Cancer
Cancer is a bully, worse than the playground bully. It not only tries to steal the children’s lunch money but it also steals their future. No parent wants to hear those terrifying words, “your child has cancer!” When cancer affects a child, no member of the family is spared. Cancer used to be “a disease […]
This candle burns for Little Fighters who lost the Battle
🎗Always in our Hearts 🎗
