Read the stories of some of the brave children and their families affected by neuroblastoma.
Sienna Hoffman is the inspiration behind Neuroblastoma Australia. Sienna was born in London on 27th July 2007 and was a perfectly happy and healthy baby girl. Tragically, she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of neuroblastoma at just 7 months old and became a little angel on the 3rd February 2010. Sienna was just two and a half years old. Read more
Meet the sunny three year old who has endured more medical procedures than most people deal with in a lifetime. Read more
In February 2012, when Mia was only one, her mum Karina took her to the doctor. Within six hours, Mia had undergone blood tests and an ultrasound, which identified a tumour on her right kidney. Read more
Penny had a persistent cough which was put down to ‘reflux’ until late October in 2014, just before Penny’s first birthday, when the family headed to the local hospital fearing she may have swallowed a toy however scans indicated Penny had a collapsed lung. Read more
Kitty’s family’s world turned upside down on Tuesday 21 November 2017. The absolute last thing you expect to hear when you bring your child in for a sore leg is that they have cancer. Read more
After countless visits to the pediatrician, on July 4 2012, Adrian’s parents, Nick and Bernadette, rushed Adrian to Sydney’s Children’s Hospital in Randwick. The next day they received the devastating news that Adrian had Stage 4 Neuroblastoma Intermediate risk. Read more
Just before Christmas in 2017, Stephanie and Duane took their then 22 month old daughter Saskia to hospital because of a high fever. Read more
Ciara’s is a story of triumph over the children’s cancer neuroblastoma and has been the driving force behind over $350,000 in fundraising which has been delivered to Children's Cancer Institute for research into the disease. Read more
Paolo and Diana Carniel had never heard of neuroblastoma before August 2018 when their son Zach, just five years old at the time, was first diagnosed. Read more
Meet our first Run2Cure Neuroblastoma Superhero for 2020 - Benji! He and his family will be taking part in Run2cure 2020 on Sunday 31 May to raise awareness of, and desperately needed funds for a cure for the children's cancer neuroblastoma. Read more
In the month before she was diagnosed Isabella started to lose weight, and various other symptoms started to make her very unwell. Read more
When parents Katie and George noticed their 15 month old son Georgie's belly button had changed they never imagined that within the month he'd be diagnosed with Stage 4 Neuroblastoma; a childhood cancer the family had never even heard of. Read more