Meet our new Cancer Support Specialist Hannah
Hannah Farrell is one of our Cancer Support Specialists who works with children and young people who have a parent diagnosed with cancer. Hannah joined us from the children’s Haematology and [...]
Telling my ten year old daughter I was sick was harder than being told I had cancer
Neil Byrne was diagnosed with stage two testicular cancer in February 2019. After surgery and a CT scan in April he found out that the cancer had spread to a lymph node behind his stomach and he [...]
Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust Sailing Trip
Confidence After Cancer This August our Cancer Support Specialist Laura accompanied three teenagers on a four day sailing trip with the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust in Largs, Scotland. Young [...]
Group Support for children who have a parent with cancer
One of the challenges children who have a parent diagnosed with cancer face is isolation, not knowing anyone else in the same situation as them. Cancer Fund for Children’s group support helps [...]
Young People Share their experiences of cancer in powerful performance
Eight young people, aged 18-24, from Northern Ireland, who have all been affected by cancer, joined forces to produce their very own play telling their experiences, entitled ‘Beyond the Label’. [...]