A dad whose toddler battled retinoblastoma is taking part in the London Marathon so that he can help raise awareness of the symptoms among other parents. Maeve Ling-Calver was just a year old when she was diagnosed with retinoblastoma. She had appeared perfectly well...
She’s only 16 months old but horse lover Felicity Bone is already fearless when it comes to her four legged friends. “When she goes for a ride she refuses to get off,” her proud mum Charlotte Salisbury says. “She just loves horses – I imagine it’s in her blood.”...
A new piece of EU legislation is coming into effect later this month, the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. This is bringing the biggest change to UK data privacy laws for 20 years. Here at CHECT we want to make sure that we have an up to date record of your...
One in ten babies and children in the UK with an aggressive type of eye cancer have to wait more than six months to be diagnosed, according to new figures. The Childhood Eye Cancer Trust (CHECT) found that 11% of children diagnosed with retinoblastoma in 2017 had a...
Erin Gentry was two years old when she was diagnosed with retinoblastoma (Rb), she needed lifesaving surgery to remove her left eye and stop the cancer spreading, followed by chemotherapy. Fast forward five years and Erin has been featured as part of BBC 3’s Amazing...
Zoe Hanscombe was diagnosed with retinoblastoma when she was 5 months old. She shares her experience of using the OrCam My Reader… I was born in summer of 1976 and at 5 months old it was discovered I had bilateral retinoblastoma. I had my left eye removed and external...
