Recent Stories

Learn more about what young people feel about having cancer, what they go through and how they cope by reading these personal stories from young people with cancer from across the UK.

  • Lucy Rich

    Cancer category: Carcinomas (except of skin)
    Cancer type: Carcinoma of ovary and testis

    Lucy, from Tonbridge in Kent, was diagnosed with an ovarian tumour at just 12 years old.

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  • Jack Chester

    Cancer category: Bone tumours
    Cancer type: Ewing’s tumour

    Jack, from Essex, was diagnosed a type of bone cancer called Ewing’s sarcoma when he was 17.

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  • Joe Twyman

    Cancer category: Leukaemias
    Cancer type: Acute myeloid leukaemia

    Joe of Hertfordshire was diagnosed with Leukemia (AML) at 18. He’s 20 now, and in remission.

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  • Heather Robinson

    Cancer category: Central nervous system tumours
    Cancer type: Other and unspecified malignant intracranial and intraspinal neoplasms

    Heather fwas diagnosed with a Peripheral Neuroectodermal Tumour at 17.

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  • Jamie Scoular

    Cancer category: Leukaemias
    Cancer type: Acute myeloid leukaemia

    Jamie, from Loddington, and now 18, was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia at the age of 6. While doctors thought it was glandular fever, the diagnosis was far worst.

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  • Faye Lilley

    Cancer category: Central nervous system tumours
    Cancer type: Neuroblastoma

    Faye was diagnosed with Ganglioneuroblastoma (an adrenal tumour) at the age of 21. She is now 25 and in remission.

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  • Nicole Dryburgh

    Cancer category: Soft tissue sarcomas
    Cancer type: Other soft tissue sarcomas

    Nicole Dryburgh from Whitsable in Kent was diagnosed with a large peripheral nerve sheath tumour at the age of 11, and relapsed aged 17. She is now 20 and in remission.

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  • Allister Boyd

    Cancer category: Central nervous system tumours
    Cancer type: Other specified neoplasms

    Allister loved gigs, live comedy and his Mum’s Victoria sponge cake. But at 19, he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.

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