Young Lives vs Cancer provides specialist support for young people with neuroblastoma.
At Young Lives vs Cancer, we know neuroblastoma doesn’t just impact a child or young person’s health. It can affect them (and their families) mentally, stretch their finances to breaking point, put huge pressure on school, college or work, mess with their confidence, their relationships and their social life.
That’s why we exist: to help them with everything outside treatment, so young cancer patients and their families can focus on getting well and living life as fully as possible, during and after cancer.
£15
could pay for a social worker to support a family, helping to navigate extra worries of coronavirus on top of neuroblastoma.
£30
could help fund essential technology to provide support remotely to young people and families during the current crisis.
£100
could pay towards a hardship grant to ensure families facing financial worries due to neuroblastoma can pay for basics like food.
WE WORK HARD TO SUPPORT THE MOST VULNERABLE young people WITH neuroblastoma. People like Lois.
Just before turning 19 Lois was suffering with bad back pain so severe she couldn’t lift her 16-month-old baby daughter, Lexi. Doctors told her not to worry and said it was probably sciatica. It wasn’t until after several tests she was later diagnosed with neuroblastoma, and went on to have multiple surgeries, and treatments including radiotherapy and immunotherapy at UCLH.
“On my first day of treatment my Young Lives vs Cancer Social Worker Sarah came in and she had all these forms. They were the weirdest forms ever that are so hard to understand and she went through literally everything she needed to go through with me.
“She helped everybody out. I’m a single mum and Lexi wasn’t at school, so my mum had to stop working to look after her. Sarah was there the whole time, she was always a WhatsApp away. I was really fortunate that her desk was literally next to my consultant’s so if I had any concern during the week she would go and ask him. Everything went through Sarah and she just dealt with everything.”
We can't do it without you.
Thanks to supporters like you we can be there for young people like Lois. Last year we supported 7,200 young people diagnosed with cancer. With your support, we can reach more. Donate to the UK's leading children's cancer charity today.