CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSON’S CANCER

INFORMATION ON CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSON’S CANCER

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSON’S CANCER SUPPORT GROUPS

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSON’S CANCER LIFE STORIES

Information on Children and Young Person’s Cancer

4200 children and young adults
in the UK are diagnosed with
cancer each year.

Find out more about childhood
cancers by clicking on the button below.

Children and Young Person’s Cancer Charities

Dragonfly Cancer Trust

Dragonfly Cancer Trust

Our mission is to support children and young people facing a life-threatening cancer diagnosis. As a national charity, we are committed to providing comprehensive support to young cancer patients and their families, fostering an environment where each moment matters...

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Teenage Cancer Trust

Teenage Cancer Trust

The Trust is a cancer care & support charity in the UK that exists to improve the cancer experience of young people aged 13-24. Telephone: 020 7612 0370 Website: https://www.teenagecancertrust.org/ Address: Teenage Cancer Trust, Third floor, 93 Newman...

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Levi’s Star

Levi’s Star

Levi’s Star was established as a charity in August 2008 in memory of Levi, who lost his life to a brain tumour, just six weeks after the devastating diagnosis. Levi’s Star supports children with brain tumours and their families throughout Yorkshire. Telephone: 01924...

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Ella Dawson Foundation

Ella Dawson Foundation

The Ella Dawson Foundation provides a safe supportive and uplifting space where young adults with cancer, and their families, can access tailored physical, psychological, emotional, nutritional, wellbeing support within a welcoming and like – minded community. Perhaps...

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Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust

Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust

We raise money to support 13-24 year old fighting cancer by funding medical and social research specifically into cancers that affect the age group and assisting support projects for young cancer patients. Telephone: 01484 510013 Website:...

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CLIC Sargent

CLIC Sargent

CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading cancer charity for children, young people and their families. Its care teams provide specialist support across the UK. Telephone: 0300 330 0803 Website: https://beta.clicsargent.org.uk/ Address: No. 1 Farriers Yard Assembly London...

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Candlelighters

Candlelighters

Candlelighters have been helping children with cancer and their families since 1976. Candlelighters is a big family. And like any family, we look after each other. Anyone touched by children’s cancer in Yorkshire, no matter how long ago, is considered a member. Our...

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Other Useful Resources for Children and Young Person’s Cancer

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The Yorkshire and Humber Children, Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Clinical Network has launched a new website developed over the past year in collaboration with key stakeholders in the region.

The network is designed to bring key teams and personnel together that comprise the clinical and holistic components of the pathway of care for children and young people with cancer. The goal is to enable service users to access the right care in the right place and at the right time, including clinical trials, while benefiting from co-ordinated holistic and psychosocial support.

The website is in its infancy and would welcome all feedback to develop it further. Please share this with any colleagues who may wish to find out more about the clinical network’s role in providing cancer care to young people aged 0-25 and their families.

Contact leedsth-tr.yhctyacodn@nhs.net if you’d like to find out more.

Children and Young Person’s Cancer Support Groups

Bone Cancer Research Trust 16-30

Virtual meeting offered online Leeds, LS1
Telephone: 0800 111 48 55

Are you 16-30 years old and have experience with a primary bone cancer diagnosis?

Whether you are a current or former patient, the BCRT Support & Information Team, Louise & Joanne would love to meet you.
They have set up a new support group for young people affected by primary bone cancer.
It will be an informal hour of relaxed conversation.
Offered monthly on Tuesday evening from 7.30 – 8.30 pm
Contact the team for the sign up details.
You will need to sign a consent form before attending.

Liferafts

Hope House, 18 Cambridge Avenue, Bottesford, Scunthorpe, DN16 3LG

Tel: 07412121716

Email: enquiries@hopehousebfs.org

Website: https://www.bosomfamilysupport.com

Liferafts is a group aimed at young adults and children.

It is run by Bosom Family Support.  The group welcomes any young people who have a family member with a life limiting illness or who have suffered a bereavement.

Liferafts exists to show young people that they are not alone. They can meet others who are in a similar position, spend time together and make new friends.

Liferafts is run by Louise, a qualified Therapeutic Counsellor. Louise organises activities, promotes group discussions and is available to offer one to one time with the children if they need it.

Liferafts meets every other Tuesday at Hope House.

Children and Young Person’s Cancer Life Stories

Arzoo’s story – Young person’s cancer

Arzoo’s story – Young person’s cancer

Young cancer patient achieves her goal   A studious Dewsbury teenager missed more than a year’s worth of school when she was diagnosed with bone cancer, but still managed to achieve a First-Class Honours degree in Pharmacy when she graduated last year.  ...

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Rian’s Story – Acute Myeloid Leukaemia

Rian’s Story – Acute Myeloid Leukaemia

Rian Harvey may only be 22-years-old but he is wise beyond his years. Positive, upbeat, inspirational…a young man on a mission to talk to as many people as possible about cancer and tackle a few myths in the process. That’s why he made a perfect guest for You...

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