Lily was only 5 when she was diagnosed with brain cancer

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Meet Lily

Meet Anna

Anna was diagnosed with an aggressive and rare form of cancer at 29 years old.

Before her diagnosis, Anna says, she and her partner Sian were happily “just doing life”. But their world was shattered by three simple words: ‘you have cancer’.

At the age of 29, Anna was fit and healthy, going for regular 10k runs with Sian. She dabbled in pottery, was renovating her apartment, and was joyfully planning a European holiday.

Her life was interrupted when she began experiencing a pain in her jaw that simply wouldn’t go away.

It turned out to be an aggressive form of cancer called Ewing sarcoma. And a subtype so rare only 90 people have ever been diagnosed with it in that part of the body.

Your support is urgently needed to accelerate cancer research and help save the lives of people like Anna.

Read Anna's story

Meet Lily

Meet Lily

"Imagine having to sign a form, saying your child may basically die on the operating table of a stroke or hundreds and hundreds of different things that could have happened.

- Alicia, Lily's Mum

Lily was only 5 years old when she was diagnosed with brain cancer - a rare and aggressive type with a survival rate that hasn’t improved in decades.

For children, the side effects of conventional treatments can include learning and physical disabilities, heart trouble, infertility and a host of other debilitating conditions. This can have a huge impact on not only the child’s life, but also their entire family.

We need safer, kinder and more effective treatments for children with cancer—and we need them now.

That’s why your support is so critical.

Read Lily's story

The cancer journey is about far more than just receiving treatment.

"I want to be able to make a difference - advance treatment for patients with all cancers."

"The only way we can do better is with research." Dr Alesha Thai’s work is focused on head and neck cancers – but the discoveries and breakthroughs she makes in this field have the potential to translate into all cancer types. Supporters like you are helping Dr Thai investigate a way to improve the likelihood of patients getting the most effective treatment for their cancer type, by testing treatments on their tumour in the lab.

Read more about Dr Thai's research
The cancer journey is about far more than just receiving treatment.