Medical adviser: issue 92
Dr Martin English, Consultant Paediatric Oncologist at Birmingham Children's Hospital and CCLG member writes...
A day in the life... of a play specialist
Catrin Bayliss is a health play specialist at Cardiff and Vale UHB.
A new 'new normal': Ward life during COVID
Steph Hall is a senior children’s cancer nurse at Leeds Children’s Hospital (LCH). She tells us what life looked like on a children’s cancer ward before COVID, what it’s looked like during the pandemic, and what it’s looking like now.
What is cancer?
Dr Ed Cheeseman, Consultant Paediatric Pathologist and Chair of CCLG’s Biological Studies Steering Group, explains the difference between ‘normal’ cells and cancer cells, how the latter develop, and what they do to the body.
A parent's view... childhood cancer and siblings
Sarah Mcdonald’s daughter Summer was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2012. She writes on what life looked like for Summer’s sister, Kya, during treatment.