Andrew from Wales
Jan 16, 2014 | News
My name is Andrew and I am from Wales... My story starts long before I was diagnosed. At first I was getting really bad headaches, my hands were shaking uncontrollably...
Kate from Plymouth
Jan 16, 2014 | News
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...
Dariusz from Suffolk
Jan 14, 2014 | News
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...
Josie’s mum Ann Wheeler
Oct 10, 2012 | News
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...
Amy Aubin
Oct 10, 2012 | News
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...
Founder Brenda Clark
Oct 10, 2012 | News
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...
Thomas Green
Oct 4, 2012 | News
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...
Jen’s Story
Oct 4, 2012 | News
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...
20 year old Warren Wilson
Oct 4, 2012 | News
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....
Bryony from Bristol
Jan 14, 2012 | News
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...
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The Youth Cancer Trust is a charity based in Dorset. It provides online support and free, therapeutic wellbeing holidays for young people living with and beyond cancer in the UK or Ireland.
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