On the 6 August, James Utting took on a Guinness World Record attempt by running a half marathon in high heels to raise funds for the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust – the only charity in the UK charity dedicated to fighting retinoblastoma, a rare form of cancer that...
As part of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Lawson, who was diagnosed with retinoblastoma (Rb) over fifty years ago, shares his story with us: I’m Lawson Symmonds and live in Caerphilly South Wales. I was brought up in the small village of St Athan in the Vale of...
We want to say a huge well done to Armanie, who was invited on to Kanshi TV! Armanie talked in Punjabi about her hobbies, retinoblastoma and the squats challenge she did for CHECT back in 2020. Armanie’s mum Aazmeen says, “Armanie starts talking about eye...
Two parents from Yorkshire are urging other parents to look out for the tell-tale signs of eye cancer this World Retinoblastoma Awareness Week, after their two-year-old daughter was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer that typically affects children under...
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...
