Cancer (young people)

Interview 24: The results came back the Thursday night and it said that the results were that I had a brain tumour at the back of my head where the spinal column meets the skull.

Interview 18: Yeah, I remember the day I was diagnosed I seriously thought I was going to die because when you-, when you get diagnosed with cancer the first thing that takes over is fear, with anybody. So, yeah, irrational thoughts kind of sort of start coming in and yeah I thought I was going to die for quite a few days actually at first, until my doctors managed to convince me that I was going to be treated and I was going to be okay.

Interview 11: I kept thinking they were wrong. I just-, for the first couple of days, I just kept expecting them to come in and say, ‘right, got it wrong you can go home now’.

Interview 15: It's-, it's quite odd how being diagnosed has meant that a lot of friends have gone into the woodwork and haven't been there for me. I don't know if it's they don't know how to handle it, or because they don't want to come-, to face it, to face the fact that their friend has had cancer.

Interview 27: And I had a-, I've got a younger sister and she was scared to hug me because I was in so much pain all the time.

Interview 34: Yes, I went to a sperm bank about five times before the chemotherapy started to store some sperm. Because there is the possibility, that chemotherapy can affect fertility.

Interview 08: If your hair is going to fall out, have it cut off because waking up with strands of hair on the pillow is not nice.

Interview 13:  ...and to not feel not feel different or stupid because you're scared because it is scary. But to stay positive and because life is -, life afterwards goes on and it's so important just to focus on that.