Oxford’s dreaming spires, seen from Boar’s Hill. Picture by Shelley Hoffmire.
REGISTER NOW: One Rb World 2026, San Antonio, Texas!
Saturday 12 – Monday 14 September, 2026 | San Antonio.
One Rb World 2026 welcomes retinoblastoma patients, survivors, family members, medical professionals, and scientists to share three full days of programming, community and collaboration in the Lone Star State.
The 8th One Rb World Conference will take place before the 58th International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) World Congress, which will be held in San Antonio, 15-18 September 2026.
We recognize our 2026 conference falls during Rosh Hashanah, and we apologize for any conflicts this may create. We hope many in our community will still be able to participate, and we remain committed to making the conference as accessible and inclusive as possible.
As well as valuable presentations and panel discussions, join us in-person for round-table discussions, relaxed networking, and memorable social activities at this unique national and global Rb event. As always, we’ll have a full program of child life activities for Rb patients, young survivors, their siblings, and the children of survivors and speakers.
You’ll find a very warm welcome with us in San Antonio, where we’ll advance patient-centred care and research for all together.
Our Global Community United at One Rb World 2024 in Hawaii!
WE C Hope UK joined our USA colleagues as they hosted the 7th One Retinoblastoma World meeting, October 15-17 in Honolulu, Hawaii and online.
Uniting families, survivors, medical professionals and scientists worldwide, we shared knowledge and lived experience, strengthened our global community, developed collaborations needed to advance acute and lifelong care, and access to care, for all. Read part 1/3 of our conference review!
Planning Your Child’s Care: A Decision-Making Guide
Parents face many decisions about their child’s retinoblastoma treatment. The experience can be complex, highly emotive, and stressful.
Our comprehensive guide will help you navigate the process and make the best decisions at every stage of your child’s eye cancer journey. Each step provides clear, manageable guidance that will help build your knowledge and confidence gradually, while supporting you to make timely decisions for your child and family. Learn more and read the guide today.
Are You Considering International Rb Care?
Childhood eye cancer requires expert care. Families and doctors worldwide seek treatment at centres outside their home country.
Delays, finances, poor planning, communication, family support, and follow-up care lead to poor outcomes for the child and family.
Our International Care section will help you ask and answer some of the most important questions as you identify the treatment that is best for the complete wellbeing of your child and entire family.
Our Vision and Mission
Every two hours, another child dies from curable eye cancer.
More than 10 children every single day.
Retinoblastoma (Rb) is the most common eye cancer of early childhood, affecting one or both eyes. Usually forming in the first two years of life, some babies are born with cancer already growing.
Cure is above 98% in high-income countries, where most research takes place and the focus is saving sight. Most children with retinoblastoma live in low- and middle-income countries, where awareness and access to timely, appropriate medical care is limited. These discrepancies have led to a global survival rate estimated to be less than 40%.
Retinoblastoma has lifelong impacts including sight loss, increased risk of second primary cancers, and risk of survivors’ children also having eye cancer.
Low awareness, difficulty accessing specialist care and tailored support, and limited research globally leads to preventable stress and trauma, and suboptimal outcomes for many children, adult survivors, and families.
Thousands of curable children and adult survivors die each year.
Our Vision: Life and sight for every child, Survivor, and Family!
Everyone deserves the best opportunities to overcome cancer, and to have a good quality of life during treatment, beyond cure, and when cure is not possible.
World Eye Cancer Hope (WE C Hope) helps improve early diagnosis, advance medical care, and meet the unique needs of affected families and survivors worldwide.
Our Mission
World Eye Cancer Hope is committed to raising awareness and education around early diagnosis of retinoblastoma. We advocate for timely access to treatment, evidence-based care, and tailored psychosocial support for affected children, adult survivors, their families, and healthcare providers around the world.
We achieve this by:
- Educating the public and healthcare workers about retinoblastoma and second primary cancers to achieve early detection, timely diagnosis, and rapid referral to specialist care.
- Establishing family support programs that provide patients, families, and survivors a space to connect through online communities, events, and the One Retinoblastoma World conference.
- Empowering families, survivors, researchers, the global eye care and cancer communities, the imaging industry, and policymakers to develop sustainable, high-quality, evidence-based, patient-centered care.
Find out how WE C Hope evolved from focus on one child to the pursuit of life and sight for every child with retinoblastoma around the world.
Learn about our work to improve care for children with eye cancer in Africa, our awareness campaigns, family support and global collaboration for evidence based care.
Meet Our Team
Meet the people dedicated to improving care for children, survivors and their families affected by retinoblastoma through our activities.
Online, by post, while searching the web or shopping… There are lots of ways you can donate to help us save the lives and sight of many precious children.
Experience the FUN in sharing hope with others by hosting a fundraiser, or join an event to help bring life and sight to children around the world.
Find out our current volunteer needs and how you can help. We would love to talk with you about opportunities that fit you and your schedule.
We welcome your questions and feedback. Please read the highlighted information before contacting us about concerning photographs or help for a child.
