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Earlier this week, royal fans were treated to the exciting news that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have launched their own YouTube channel. Now, in the first video released to the platform after the initial introductory trailer, the Duchess has shared a moving phone call she made to a young girl suffering from leukaemia.
The conversation is the first in a series that will be posted on the channel, in which Kate talks over the phone with participants from Hold Still, the public photography project which she spearheaded with the National Portrait Gallery last year. The caption to the YouTube video relates: ‘The calls, which took place last autumn, saw the Duchess speak to a number of the 100 finalists who shared their experiences of life during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK by submitting an image to Hold Still.’
A GROUP of teenagers are working together to help the family of a five-year-old who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Avaya Powell has been diagnosed with neuroblastoma – cancer that affects around 100 children each year. After taking part in a clinical trial and having chemotherapy, the family is now looking for other treatments to tackle it – but must raise a quarter of a million pounds. Kingsdown students Tia Surridge, Macie and Mia Pike, and Talia Hayward met Avaya at Charlotte Johnson’s School of Dance have put on Easter Egg hunts and raffles to raise funds. The four friends are brainstorming other ideas to get Avaya’s family closer to their £250,000 target.
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For many, the return of shielding for the clinically extremely vulnerable at the start of this year was a tough pill to swallow. At this point it feels never-ending. But to families like mine, it’s been part of our daily existence since before the pandemic even began.
That’s because, before coronavirus turned the whole world upside down, our family’s world turned upside down when our daughter Amelie was diagnosed with cancer at the age of six.
Amelie has acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). It’s rare. Around 790 people are diagnosed with it each year in the UK – most are children and young people. Because ALL attacks white blood cells which fight infection, it can cause people to develop an extremely weakened immune system. The cruel twist is that Amelie’s treatment for her cancer – regular chemotherapy – does the same.
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