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Emotions when you’re living with a terminal illness

How to better understand and handle your emotions.

Your feelings when you’ve been diagnosed with cancer

Up one minute down the next? Find out how to deal with your feelings when you've been diagnosed.

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Telling a new partner you have cancer

Knowing when and how to tell a new partner or someone you like about your cancer diagnosis.

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Going back to work after cancer treatment

Planning your return with your employer and readjusting back into work life.

A teenager with cancer looks out of a window

Contacts for your emotions and mental health

Useful organisations, resources, apps and communities for emotional and mental health support.

Life after cancer: Getting back to “normal” after treatment

Life doesn't just get back to normal after cancer treatment ends. Here's why it can hit hardest emotionally.

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When another friend with cancer dies

Coping with grief and your feelings after the death of a friend who also has cancer.

We'll face it all, together

We are the charity that helps children and young people (0-25) and their families find the strength to face whatever cancer throws at them.

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Young Lives vs Cancer is an operating name of CLIC Sargent Cancer Care for Children. A registered charity in England and Wales (1107328) and in Scotland (SC039857). Also operating in Northern Ireland. A company limited by member guarantee (No. 05273638). Registered office: 4th Floor, Whitefriars, Lewins Mead, Bristol, BS1 2NT. VAT no: 863639196. © 2023 CLIC Sargent Cancer Care for Children.

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