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‘She’s doing fantastically’: Meet 12-year-old Grace

24 Apr 2024, 12:21 p.m.

The Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH will help children like Grace.

Living with cancer is different for every child. It can mean countless rounds of debilitating treatment. Dealing with side effects like mouth ulcers and losing your hair. Not knowing…

Maya looking at GOSH Play Specialist and smiling

"She gives me this strength that I didn't know I had”

27 Mar 2024, 4:24 p.m.

The new Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH will help children like Maya.

Maya was born with leukaemia in April 2023, although it wasn’t until six weeks later that she was diagnosed at a hospital in London.

She underwent chemotherapy, immunotherapy and a…

illustration of tigers and heart on GOSH entrance sliding doors

Entrance closure milestone for Children’s Cancer Centre

20 Feb 2024, 1:15 p.m.

Last month it was confirmed that work to enable the development of GOSH's new Children’s Cancer Centre will start this year.

As a first step, the hospital yesterday (19 February) closed its iconic main entrance on Great Ormond Street.

GOSH patient pedalling bike to make a smoothie. GOSH Nurse stands next to him, smiling.

GOSH marks International Childhood Cancer Day

16 Feb 2024, 12:01 p.m.

Yesterday (15 February) was International Childhood Cancer Day 2024. To mark this important day, we joined GOSH's nursing, physiotherapy and dietetics teams to take over the Lagoon – a restaurant and café inside the hospital.