{"id":412237,"date":"2025-09-10T04:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412237\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T04:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:33:13","slug":"londoners-urged-to-go-gold-and-support-childhood-cancer-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412237\/","title":{"rendered":"LONDONERS URGED TO \u2018GO GOLD\u2019 AND SUPPORT CHILDHOOD CANCER AWARENESS MONTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/london-post.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cancer-Research-UK-gold-ribbon-badge-2.jpeg?fit=2268%2C1508&amp;ssl=1\" data-caption=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cancer-Research-UK-gold-ribbon-badge-2.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Cancer Research UK gold ribbon badge 2\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SEPTEMBER is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Londoners are being called on to help more children and young people survive cancer.<\/p>\n<p>With around 530 new cases in under 25s in London every year,* people are being urged to support the life-saving work of Cancer Research UK for Children and Young People.<\/p>\n<p>They can help raise vital funds by donating or picking up a gold ribbon badge \u2013 the symbol of childhood cancer awareness \u2013 available from the charity\u2019s shops.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer is different in children and young people \u2013 from the types of cancer that affect this age group, to the long-term effects of treatment such as hearing loss and infertility. So, it needs a different and dedicated approach that Cancer Research UK is helping to drive forward.<\/p>\n<p>The charity\u2019s advances and breakthroughs have helped to more than double children\u2019s cancer survival in the UK since the 1970s and, today, around 8 in 10 will survive for at least 10 years.**<\/p>\n<p>But despite huge progress, cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease in children and young people over the age of one*** and children\u2019s survival for some types of cancer hasn\u2019t improved much since the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>At the Cancer Research UK City of London Centre, a virtual hub brings together researchers from University College London, King\u2019s College London, Barts Cancer Institute and the Francis Crick Institute in a world-class network for cancer discovery science.<\/p>\n<p>A cross-cutting theme for the centre\u2019s research is investigating children\u2019s and young people\u2019s cancers, aiming to improve survival, quality of life and minimise the side effects of treatment.\u202f <\/p>\n<p>And, across the UK, around 18,000 children and young people have taken part in Cancer Research UK clinical trials since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The charity\u2019s spokesperson for London, Lynn Daly, said: \u201cThanks to the generosity of our supporters, we are beating cancer, step by step, day by day. More than 9 in 10 children and young people who are prescribed cancer drugs in the UK receive at least one drug that Cancer Research UK has helped to develop.****<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd our scientists are unlocking discoveries about these cancers and translating them into new and better ways to diagnose and treat them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut too many young lives are still lost to this devastating disease. So, we hope people will show their support this Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and help ensure more children and young people live longer, better lives free from the fear of cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pick up a gold ribbon badge in Cancer Research UK shops or donate online at cruk.org\/childrenandyoungpeople<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEPTEMBER is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Londoners are being called on to help more children and young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-412237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115178137513048506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}