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Cancer (young people)

  • Overview
  • Discovering as a young person you have cancer
    • Signs and symptoms of cancer in young people
    • Going to your GP
    • Tests for cancer in young people
    • Hearing your diagnosis of cancer
    • Finding information and good information sources on cancer
  • Hospitals, doctors and treatments for young people with cancer
    • Being in hospital
    • Chemotherapy for cancer in young people
    • Radiotherapy for cancer in young people
    • Surgery for cancer in young people
    • Biological (targeted) therapies for cancer in young people
    • What young people think makes a good doctor
    • Cancer relapses in young people
    • Follow-up appointments for young people with cancer
  • Side-effects, feelings and coping strategies for young people with cancer
    • Side effects of chemotherapy
    • Does everyone feel the same as I do?
    • Coping with cancer as a young person
  • Self-image and fertility for young people with cancer
    • Body image during and after cancer
    • Concerns about fertility after cancer treatment
  • Living with cancer as a young person
    • Impact on friends when a young person has cancer
    • Impact on family when a young person has cancer
    • School and work during and after cancer
    • Messages to other young people with cancer
    • Messages to future doctors and nurses about treating young people with cancer
  • People's Profiles
    • Female 13 - 18
    • Female 19 - 26
    • Male 13 - 18
    • Male 19 - 26
  • Resources and Information
  • Credits

Cancer (young people)

Profiles - Female 13 - 18

Interview 06

Single; lives at home with her father. Did not go back to school during or after treatment; looking for work.

Interview 12

Student, single, lives with mother, father and two younger sisters

Interview 26

Studying full time for her A' levels, lives at home with parents; ethnicity, white British. She wants to study Philosophy and then to trained as a primary school teacher. Says that she is proud of her scars.
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