CLIC Sargent

CLIC Sargent are the UK's leading children's cancer charity. Cancer affects all people, both young and old and the startling facts are every day 10 families are told their child has cancer.

Help CLIC Sargent

  • CLIC Sargent are the only organisation to offer those children and their families all round care and support.
  • Currently CLIC Sargent can only help 2 out of 3 children. With your donations they can be there for every child and their families.
  • Help with a Regular Donation to CLIC Sargent
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Registered Charity Number: 1107328

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How CLIC Sargent Works

Your donations help CLIC Sargent to be there every step of the way :

  • During treatment - providing specialist nurses, doctors and play specialists
  • Creating homes from home - in hospital and at home
  • Specialist social care and family support in the community - specialist youth services, holidays, grants and phone helpline.
  • After treatment - helping survivors, supporting those bereaved.

Childhood Cancer Facts

When you think of cancer you tend to think of people in their mid to late years. The facts below really highlight the need for the work carried out be CLIC Sargent.

  • Every 24 hours, ten children and young people are diagnosed with cancer or Leukemia.
  • Cancer in childhood remains the single largest cause of death in children aged one year or over after accidents.
  • Cancer and leukaemia (when too many immature white blood cells develop in the blood or bone marrow) are the biggest childhood killer diseases in the UK.
  • Cancer in childhood (between 0-15 years) is rare. It affects approximately 1 in 600-650 children.
  • 50% of children will be aged under five years at diagnosis.
  • 75% of children will become long-term survivors of their disease - if you take all cancers together.
  • In the UK 1,500-1,700 new cases are diagnosed each year in children 0-15 years.
  • A cancer survivor is someone off treatment for one year or more.
  • A long-term survivor is someone off treatment for five years or more.
  • 30 years ago, only 30% of children were long-term survivors of their disease.
  • Leukemia is the most common childhood cancer, affecting about a third of children with cancer.
  • Typical adult cancers, such as lung, breast, colon, and stomach, are extremely rare in children.