Paediatric (children's) cancers
This section will help you to find information about cancers which affect children and young people and help and support available for them and the people around them.
The following links are to general information about childhood cancers. You can also visit the other pages in this section to find more detailed information for:
Link:About childhood cancer
Produced by:CLIC Sargent
CLIC Sargent - (formerly Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood and Sargent Cancer Care). Provides individual support to children and young people with cancer and leukaemia and their families through clinical, practical and emotional services in hospital, at home and in the community across the UK. They also carry out research into improving treatment and care.
Link:Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG)
Produced by:Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG)
The CCLG is a national professional body responsible for the organisation of the treatment and management of children with cancer in the UK. The Group's main remit is the coordination of national and international clinical trials, including biological studies. Other areas of activity include national cancer registration and provision of information for patients and families.
Link:Children's cancers
Produced by:CancerHelp UK
This section has information on websites that may be useful to children with cancer and their family and friends. There is also detailed information on children’s cancers.
Link:Childrens cancer
Produced by:Macmillan Cancer Support
Information on children's cancers, including they are diagnosed, treatments you might have, possible side effects and how to get further support.
Link:Information prescription service
Produced by:NHS Choices
The information prescriptions service (IPS) brings together information from NHS choices and their charity partners, enabling you to create an information prescription, either yourself or with a healthcare professional. You can register so the information you have on your prescription can be saved for you to return to whenever you need it. This page of the NHS choices website is where you can start an information prescription, find out more about the service, or log in to retrieve a prescription you already have.
Link:The adventures of Captain Chemo and chemo command
Produced by:The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
This website is based on the comic strips created by a young patient at the Royal Marsden. The Adventures of Captain Chemo have been turned into interactive computer games to help cancer patients worldwide.
Link:Cancer in children
Produced by:American Cancer Society
Find out more about the different types of childhood cancers, what causes them and the treatment and other resources available
Page last edited: 29 July 2011
