In January 2021, Lucy was just like every other seemingly healthy 5.5-year-old-girl, excitedly preparing to start school, when she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma. Read more
At five days old, Elijah was diagnosed with neuroblastoma and just first week of his life, Elijah underwent two biopsy surgeries, many blood tests and scans. Read more
After months of misdiagnoses, including a middle-of-the-night emergency trip to the hospital, Emeline’s mum took her to a paediatric gastroenterologist believing her tummy issue was severe constipation. It turned out to be neuroblastoma. Read more
Help us beat the number one toddler cancer. Please donate today to support world class Australian research into developing better, safer treatments with the ultimate goal of finding a definitive cure for all children diagnosed with neuroblastoma. Read more
Monique noticed Maddie was starting to withdraw more and more from her usual activities and becoming very clingy, which doctors initially put down to a virus and the usual boundary-pushing of her age group. About a week and more doctors’ visits later Maddie ended up in the ER. Read more
Neuroblastoma is an aggressive childhood cancer and survival rates for the aggressive types are around 50%. Children diagnosed with neuroblastoma are on average just 2 years old. Our mission is to fund research which will lead to a cure so that all children diagnosed with neuroblastoma get the chance to grow up and lead long and healthy lives. Read more
At seven months, Kalynda lost complete movement in her body. Further diagnosis revealed a mass in her chest cavity pushing out her ribs and compressing her spine. It was an intermediate grade neuroblastoma. Read more
A normal, bubbly toddler, Willow Lawton was diagnosed with neuroblastoma at the age of 2 years and 9 months. Read the story of this brave little girl and her fight with neuroblastoma. Read more
In January 2018 after being dismissed many times from Emergency with what was thought to be a 'virus', 18-month-old Eleanor was diagnosed with Stage Four High Risk Neuroblastoma and began the fight of her life. Read more
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
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
Lukas was growing up as a happy and super cheeky three-year-old. But in July 2019, he suddenly became very unwell. Read more
Emma and Sam welcomed beautiful baby Roy into their lives at the very height of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The last thing this courageous family expected was a neuroblastoma cancer diagnosis. Read more
Meet the sunny three year old who has endured more medical procedures than most people deal with in a lifetime. 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
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
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
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
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
In July 2015, four and a half year old Amber had woken up from her sleep complaining of a sore stomach – which was very out of ordinary for her. Read more
Indianna was diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma at just 12 months of age. Even while enduring high strength chemotherapy she found the strength to play peak a- boo with the nurses and charm the doctors with her smile and incredible dimples. Read more