A mum and dad from Cheshire are urging other parents to look out for the tell-tale signs of eye cancer this Christmas after their two-year-old son, Thomas, was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer that typically affects children under the age of...
Calling all future cover stars! We’re sorry to mention Christmas already, but we are busy putting together the next copy of InFocus and we are in need of photos of our stars in their Christmas jumpers and outfits for our front cover! If you are happy for your...
Is your little one a budding artist? Would they like to see their very own picture on our charity Christmas cards this year? The Childhood Eye Cancer Trust’s Christmas card competition is now open for entries. All of our young CHECT members aged 16 and under are...
On Christmas day of 2018 my sister noticed a glare in my son Jaxon’s eye – a sign of retinoblastoma. I took him to the GP on 27th Dec, who then advised us to go start to our localA & E department. That’s when we learned of the devastating...
Armita Abolghasemi, who had bilateral Rb as a child, is a second year genetics student at the University of York. She recently assisted with Professor Ohnuma’s Rb research, funded by CHECT. As a genetics student and an Rb survivor, research into retinoblastoma...
