Anna Hancock

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I'm joining the race to help beat childhood cancer

I’m taking part in Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity’s family festival and fun run, RBC Race for the Kids, to raise money to help build the new Children’s Cancer Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

I'm taking part in RBC Race for the Kids

2025 marks 10 years since GOSH saved our daughter Chloe's life - she was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive brain tumour on January 14th 2015, and after surgeries, lengthy hospital stays and multiple rounds of chemo, we rang the all clear bell six months later. We are forever grateful for all the support she and we had from everyone during that time and the care she received from GOSH.
In 2015, family and friends joined us to run Race for the Kids whilst Chloe was in hospital. 10 years on, with GOSH raising money for a Children's Cancer Centre, we are doing it again - this time with Chloe.

Hospital life remembered

Firstly - a huge thank you to everyone joining us in a few weeks' time or who has sponsored the team...

I found this picture the other day - it was definitely during chemo (hence the lack of hair), and I think during the time we were in for Chloe's stem cell transplant, given the feeding tube.

Both chemo and the stem cell transplant were brutal, and she found it very hard to keep anything down. She also hated the feeding tube - and it got pulled out on a regular basis.

We only started to get our strong-willed daughter eating and drinking again when she was watching an ipad (and parenting principles about screen time went out of the window) and eating chocolate mousse...

Anyway - what I also remember is that this stay wasn't on the oncology ward. There wasn't a bed - so we ended up in a different part of the hospital, where the nurses weren't the specialist cancer nurses and the parents staying nearby weren't facing into the same kind of battle.

That was 10 years ago, and now there are more diagnoses, more children and more pressure on GOSH resources - it's a great demonstration of why a children's cancer care centre is so needed x

10 years on

In 2015, family and friends joined us to run Race for the Kids whilst Chloe was in hospital.

10 years on, with GOSH raising money for a Children's Cancer Centre, we are doing it again - this time with Chloe.

RBC Race for the Kids 2025

GOSH already cares for children with the hardest to treat cancers, and new treatments are giving hope to children and their families. But these advances have outstripped GOSH's current cancer facilities.

We need a new home for breakthrough treatments and pioneering research, so we can save more children's lives. And because cancer shouldn't get to steal anyone's childhood, we need a place that's more than a hospital – a place that's a school, a playground, a garden, and so much more.

Please consider sponsoring me. Together, we can build it. Together, we can help beat childhood cancer.

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