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Cancer therapy too harsh for kids

Children's Cancer Foundation - 28/07/2025

In May 2025, the Children’s Cancer Foundation launched a new brand campaign to raise awareness of the urgent need for better and kinder cancer treatments for children. The Foundation is grateful to Natalie and Rafael Oaten who bravely shared Raf’s childhood cancer story to raise awareness of the side effects cancer treatment has on young children.

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Professor David Eisenstat appointed inaugural Chair supported by Children’s Cancer Foundation and My Room Children’s Cancer Charity

Children's Cancer Foundation - 22/05/2025

After an extensive international search, the University of Melbourne, in partnership with the Children’s Cancer Foundation and My Room Children’s Cancer Charity, is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor David Eisenstat as the inaugural Children’s Cancer Foundation and My Room Chair in Childhood Cancer.

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Our new childhood cancer awareness campaign is live. 

Children's Cancer Foundation - 21/05/2025

The Children’s Cancer Foundation has launched a new brand campaign - Don’t treat kids like adults - to raise awareness of the impact of cancer treatments on kids and is asking Australians to support funding for research into new curative treatments that are much gentler on young bodies that are still developing.

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Statement from the Chairs of My Room Children’s Cancer Charity Limited, Maurizio Marcocci, and Children’s Cancer Foundation, the Hon. Jaala Pulford

Children's Cancer Foundation - 15/04/2025

We welcome the Royal Children’s Hospital’s decision not to proceed with redundancies in the Children’s Cancer Centre.

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Joint statement from the Children’s Cancer Foundation and My Room on redundancies at the Royal Children’s Hospital’s Children’s Cancer Centre

Children's Cancer Foundation - 12/04/2025

Statement from the Chairs of My Room Children’s Cancer Charity Limited, Maurizio Marcocci, and Children’s Cancer Foundation, the Hon. Jaala Pulford.

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We need child-friendly cancer treatments

Children's Cancer Foundation - 27/03/2025

With clarity and confidence, the Children’s Cancer Foundation are stepping into a new phase and evolving our logo ‘sunshine’ logo to a ‘helping hand’. While the sunshine has served the Foundation well, we’re turning people’s attention to the fact that we need to be treating kids more gently.

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