We recognise the life saving importance of the work of the world class paediatric researchers are undertaking and acknowledge their concerns about the additional challenges they are now facing as an industry. We only have to look at the ground breaking work the Oxford team are carrying out to produce a Covid 19 vaccination to witness the importance of medical research.
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It’s never been more important to give hope to children with cancer and their families.
Effect of Covid 19 on...
Cancer Patients
The Specialist Paediatric Brain Tumour Research Community
Brain Tumour Policy within NHS
12 children and young people will continue to be diagnosed with cancer every day in the UK. And there are already thousands of families dealing with the devastating impact of such diagnoses.
In the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak, these families are facing an immense added pressure, their child is not only facing cancer, but may also be facing a higher risk of infection. Some cancer and treatments can lead to a weakened immune system which makes it harder for those affected to fight off infections like COVID-19. The impact on diagnosis and speed of treatment will also have a serious impact. Once treatable tumours may become inoperable and the development of future therapies put in jeopardy.
Lockdown may be over for most of us but for these families they are still living very isolated lives.
Big, collaborative projects that have taken years to implement are facing long periods of inactivity as funding from big charities is put on hold. There is also a significant threat of losing specialists in the field such as our passionate PHD researcher who will be forced to seek work elsewhere.
Understandably, people we have been working closely with to improve policies relating to brain tumours within Government such as Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Advisor to the UK Government, have been forced to turn their full attentions elsewhere to deal with the deadly pandemic. Another set back for our community committed to fighting the number one cancer killer in children.
The Good News
Whilst acknowledging these challenging times, our vision remains, as we strive to continue to make a difference for children diagnosed with a brain tumour.
With your support, Blue Skye Thinking has been working really tirelessly on building up funds dedicated to paediatric brain tumour research. We have almost hit our target of £200k and have already had in-depth and incredibly positive conversations with the world class team of specialist researchers about how we can keep some of their key projects functioning at full capacity (more on this exciting news to follow).
We are also in the final process of introducing individual, personalised balloon model videos for ANY child in hospital. Thanks to Tricky the Twister, this special project will hopefully bring a moment of magic onto the wards as we believe emotional wellbeing is every bit as important as treatment received.
With just one final boost from fund-raising support we can make such a big difference even during the most challenging of times.
