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Friday 12 June at The Warren, 14 Oval Way, Gerrards Cross - A wonderful way to spend a summer day!

Johanna went live on BBC Radio Oxford in an interview about William's Fund

Latest Research Update... see it on the CCRF page.

The race is on to reach £500,000 target by end 2009.... what are you doing this year? ..... fancy organising something or taking part in an event in support of William's Fund? We can supply Sponsor forms..... Set up a page on Just Giving.com for you... Attend functions to give a talk on William's Fund......just let us know how we can help....maybe you can join our Crazy Catch Challenge!.....We'd love to have you aboard!

Grand Total £431,000

William's Fund raises money for research into Childhood Cancers.

William Dodd was only 2 years old when he was diagnosed with cancer. It was given various names as the weeks turned to months but we never found out the exact type of cancer William had… all we know is that he had every treatment he could have.

We were lucky that our Oncologists had experience and contacts in the USA and we know that expertise was sought from all the major oncology centres; however nobody could help because no one knew exactly what the tumour was.

Something many people do not know is that the key to treatment of cancer, especially childhood cancer, lies in the diagnosis. Without that; the prognosis is poor.

Childhood cancers behave in a very different way to adult cancers; they respond differently to treatment and can be unpredictable in both positive and negative ways.

William's Fund was established in February 2001 in memory of William, who died on December 12th 2000 at the age of 4 years and 9 months. William amazed everyone at how he coped, always smiling with a twinkle in his eye that won so many hearts.

Since William died we have raised significant monies for The Childhood Cancer Research Fund. Two researchers have been employed at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and we aim to fund these researchers for the foreseeable future.

Dr Mitchell, who was William's consultant is running the research programme, which is very specific to Childhood Cancer; he has no funding other than charity and no official fundraisers. All the profits raised by William's Fund go directly to the research programme. There are of course many big charities concerned with cancer but most are focused on adult forms and this may not help the children.

William inspired us to start the fund raising and we see this as a fitting tribute to William to continue in his name.

Please help us to support this vital research.

Thank you.

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