It’s all change on CHECT’s Scientific Advisory Committee this year! In July we sadly said goodbye to Prof Lorna Fraser, who had spent six years as Chair of the SAC (the body that oversees our research). As well as bringing her immense professional expertise to the...
How beautiful does Daisy look with her new prosthetic eye? Daisy had her eye removed (enucleated) after having retinoblastoma, a childhood eye cancer. She has always wanted a pink sparkly prosthetic eye since she was two-years-old, and now, aged eight, is delighted to...
Professor Ohnuma summarises the findings of this important project Although there are a range of successful treatments available for retinoblastoma, unfortunately many of these can cause some degree of vision loss for the child. In order to be able to develop new...
We love reading about what our members are up to. Here, William, who is in Year 5, has written about his school life after retinoblastoma: “My name is William. I study in Year 5 in West London. At school I play football, basketball, the game ‘it’ and...
The Great North Run event will be respectfully modified to reflect the intense sadness which is being felt across the county – allowing brilliant runners to still raise incredible donations for charities such as ours, while remembering the devastating loss of Her...
