Young people

Saturday 15th February is International Childhood Cancer Day, a global campaign to raise awareness about childhood cancer, and to show support for children and adolescents with cancer, young [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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’. [...]