Harris Ltd

'STAR for Harris' is passionate about supporting the treatment of childhood cancer as we know from our own personal experience, what it is like for your child to undergo such gruelling treatment, sometimes continually staying in hospital whilst the family's life is turned upside down and the future is completely uncertain. In supporting treatment,... we have so far: established a twice weekly music therapy programme for oncology children at the RHSC Edinburgh given £13000 towards a sat-nav that is now being used for guiding brain surgery provided gifts for children going into isolation due to intense treatment or because they are receiving a bone marrow transplant donated a range of resources for the oncology ward including musical instruments, electronic resources and several television/DVD combos given a television/DVD combo to Clic Villa along with a selection of DVDs We also aim to awareness raise about the reality of childhood cancer. With 1 in 300 boys and 1 in 330 girls being diagnosed with cancer during childhood and, as we know that early diagnosis does save lives, it is vital that we are all cancer aware. Think of the difference the meningitis campaign made in increasing survival chances. Again, we know from our own experience that it is important for parents to be aware of possible symptoms. Harris wasn't referred for a scan until he was critically ill. He had already seen numerous doctors and yet, none of them had identified that he was ticking what we now know to be the list of brain tumour indicators. So please, be aware. In raising awareness we have: funded for 1 million 'Be Child Cancer Aware' cards to be distributed throughout Scotland (for information on BCCA, visit www.bechildcanceraware.org/ helped facilitate 2 medical conferences set up this web page and a Facebook page to share childhood cancer stories & information spoke out at a Fashion Show about Harris's journey and the need for people to join the bone marrow registerRead More