Here we meet 24 year old Amy who was diagnosed with Stage 2B Hodgkin’s Lymphoma after experiencing night sweats, infections, itchiness and a lump. Amy tells us how she was initially put into remission in February 2015 but unfortunately in […]
Lymphoma (174 films)
September is #BloodCancerAwarenessMonth. This short film features some of our young people with cancer that we have supported over the past ten years.
Blood Cancer Awareness Month
We hear from Imogen, Heena & Harry who attended one of the Teenage Cancer Trust’s Royal Albert Hall gigs. We get to hear about their day and what they got up to including meeting Bring Me The Horizon!
RAH 2016 – Imogen, Heena & Harry
Heena tells us how she finds herself quite anxious before scan results and how she deals with hearing her results. “Scanxiety – Anxiety and worry that accompanies the period of time before undergoing or receiving the results of scans/tests.”
Scanxiety – Heena
We hear from Heena, Thomas & Ruth who talk about scanxiety and how they deal with this. “Scanxiety – Anxiety and worry that accompanies the period of time before undergoing or receiving the results of scans/tests.”
Scanxiety
Zeena talks about how she spent a year after treatment getting herself back to “normal”. Zeena talks about it was only then when she felt ready to look for a relationship.
I felt ready
Tasha explains how she couldn’t stop eating due to the steroids. Tasha explains how her body has changed dramatically through her treatment putting on 8 stones in 6 months but how you shouldn’t worry as you will lose that weight.
Talking food with Tasha
Zeena talks about how in her second year of university her friends told her she needed to get back into the dating game.
Bite the bullet
Jess talks about how she has dealt with relationships during and after cancer including how she is now in a relationship with another ex-cancer patient after originally meeting him at Teenage Cancer Trust’s FYSOT.
Embrace the unexpected
We hear from some of our fabulous filmmakers; from chemo cravings to steroid hunger & to things they never want to eat again! Let’s talk FOOD!
Let’s talk about FOOD
Having not long come out of a serious relationship, Zeena was diagnosed with cancer. Zeena talks about how she felt the need to tell her ex of her diagnosis. Zeena also talks about how during treatment she just felt far […]
You, Me & The Big C
Day after Natasha’s 17th birthday she found out she had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Now in remission, Natasha talks about how she feels she has to justify why she looks like she does and how she has less confidence in herself which […]