Hi, my name is Kate and I live in Plymouth… I was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma in my right shoulder blade in October 2000, I was 16. I had completed my GCSE’s and had just started doing my A levels. I had been in horrendous pain with my shoulder for 18 months...
My name is Dariusz and I live in Suffolk… It’s a couple of years since it all started, but this is the first time I have decided to tell my story. I am a reserved person, so I have certain stories, which I do not share with anybody. Actually I am now changing...
Josie taking part in Spinnaker Sailing on a Youth Cancer Trust holiday Josie, our daughter, had her 3rd pituitary brain tumour in 1999. Because she was then totally blind and with short term memory problems I was with her in the ward at Bart’s Hospital as a carer. A...
The Youth Cancer Trust has made several international friends over the past couple of years through social media. A few months ago we met Amy through Twitter having read one of her blogs and thought that her experiences were so very similar to the ones we hear about...
On behalf of us all at the Youth Cancer Trust, I am delighted to be celebrating 15 years since the Trust was founded in October 1997. It seems many moons ago when Sir John Scott MBE and I set about the hard work in creating a charitable service based on the idea of...
25 intrepid skydivers took part in a Mass Skydive at Salisbury Airfield earlier this year raising sponsorship for the Youth Cancer Trust. One of the 25 was Thomas Green who kindly wrote an article about his experiences skydiving for the Trust. Thomas is a regular...
24 year old Jen Bayley is from Stockport and has been to stay at the Youth Cancer Trust a few times during her treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (All) and whilst she is now in remission. I was diagnosed in February 2007 with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia...
20 year old Warren Wilson, from Leicester, recently stayed at the Youth Cancer Trust for the sixth time. Warren was diagnosed with a brain tumour in September 2003. Warren has kindly agreed to share his story… ““I had been feeling unwell for quite some time. I...
My name is Bryony and I live in Bristol… Back early 2012 I was planning my wedding to Neal, enjoying my job as a healthcare assistant and enjoying holidays in Marbella. However gradually I had gained 6 stone and had become depressed. In July 2012, aged 23 I was...
My name is Laura and I have been to the Youth Cancer Trust many times with my friend Ellen… I suppose you never think that it will be you or one of your friends that gets the big ‘C’, so when one of your best friends gets diagnosed with Cancer whilst you’re...
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