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Children develop different types of cancers than adults, with around 1,900 children under the age of 14 diagnosed each year. The most common types of childhood cancer are acute leukaemia and cancers of the brain and spinal cord. Thanks to research into new treatments, 8 in 10 children diagnosed with cancer will live for at least five years.

How longer waiting times are impacting teens and young adults

Concluding our first Teenager and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month, we look at how longer waiting times are impacting their mental health.

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3 ways we’re helping teenagers and young adults with cancer

Teenagers and young adults with cancer have to deal with unique challenges. We’re using our expertise to help tackle them.

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The stories behind Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month

For Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month, we’re hearing from four supporters who’ve faced the unique challenges of teenage cancer.

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Children’s cancer charities team up for tomorrow’s treatments

We’re helping treble funding for paediatric Experimental Cancer Medicine Centres, paving the way to more effective and less toxic treatments for children and young people.

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Time to take on 9 new Cancer Grand Challenges

These are some of the biggest questions in cancer research. Cancer Grand Challenges are looking for research teams that can help answer them.

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The Nobel Prize winner helping us treat children’s cancers

Professor Carolyn Bertozzi won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She’s using all she’s learned to create better treatments for solid tumours in children.

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Changes to chromosomes impact how children’s brain tumours respond to treatment

Our scientists have found tiny cellular changes that make medulloblastomas resistant to treatment. Understanding them could help us treat the disease in future.

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Banking on breakthroughs for children and young people

A newly merged biobank will be UK’s leading biomedical research resource dedicated to storing samples and data of cancers in children and young people – we explore its potential impact…

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Life beyond cancer: Improving the long term side effects for children and young people with brain cancer

We spoke to Dr Debbie Hicks about what is being done to understand and minimise the impact of long-term side effects for children and young people with medulloblastoma.

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The link between Down syndrome and childhood leukaemia

In 1930, it was discovered that children with Down syndrome are at a greater risk of developing certain types of leukaemia, but much of our understanding of this link remains a mystery.

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