Nine-year-old Jude discusses why he chose to go for a customised prosthetic eye after losing his eye to retinoblastoma. Losing my eye is the biggest obstacle I’ve had to overcome and having only one eye and dyspraxia is a challenge for me. Most of the time having a...
If you or your child have a love for music, you could be the second person to benefit from The Ffion Miles Music bursary – in memory of the late Ffion Miles. Ffion was not only known for her love of music, but her passion towards helping those who had retinoblastoma...
CHECT’s Trusts & Foundations Fundraising Manager Lizzie and her family have recently become Puppy Raisers for Guide Dogs. Golden Retriever Ashford moved in with them at the beginning of February and is expected to live with them for the next year or so until he...
Our retinoblastoma PhD researcher student who is researching into the psycho-social effects of a cancer of childhood called retinoblastoma successfully became a finalist in the University of York’s PhD Spotlight competition on the 11 January. PhD researcher Nicola...
I feel very honoured to be asked to write another blog post for CHECT for World Book Day 2023. In my previous post, I talked about how books were important to me as a child, and how it’s come full circle now that I am a children’s author. I was just a baby when I was...
Two parents from Putney are urging other parents to look out for the tell-tale signs of eye cancer this Rare Disease Day, after their fourteen-month-year-old daughter was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer that typically affects children under the age of...