Rachael Tuley no longer entertained the idea of having a family, until the love of her life appeared and changed everything. Rachael, who survived bilateral retinoblastoma as a child, tells her story… I was diagnosed with retinoblastoma at nine weeks old, in 1976,...
A mum is calling for more parents to be aware of retinoblastoma after her young daughter had to have her eye removed to save her life. Nya Yasmin Ali was 18 months old when she was diagnosed with retinoblastoma (Rb), a fast-growing cancer that affects babies and...
Alison Scattergood was just six weeks old when she was diagnosed with the eye cancer retinoblastoma, and within a month she’d had her eye removed. Now aged 42, she has a successful, award-winning career and the family she always dreamed of. Her inspiring story proves...
The CHECT staff team had the pleasure of spending some time with Angharad Price when she joined us in the office for a week’s work experience in the summer of 2014. She wrote several articles at the time and did a brilliant job helping to plan the layout for the...
Ethan’s story by his mum Josephine. Ethan Carr was diagnosed with Rb in July 2013. He was four. His story started one Friday afternoon on an outing with his nursery; one of the accompanying parents thought she noticed a reflection in his eye. Over the weekend, my...
