Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Services

Specific tailored support for 16-25 year old cancer patients treated at Colchester hospital

Receiving a cancer diagnosis at any age is very difficult to manage but as a young person with your whole life ahead of you it seems unthinkable and very daunting. Please contact us with any questions, queries, worries or concerns.

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Natalie Wheatley
Contact Natalie on - 07919 304034

Further Support

Fruitfly Collective: Fruitfly Collective: Help for young people — Fruitfly Collective

Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group: www.cclg.org.uk

Young Lives vs Cancer: www.younglivesvscancer.org.uk (previously ClicSargent)

Kids Cancer Charity: www.kidscancercharity.org

Teenage Cancer Trust: www.teenagecancertrust.org

Teens Unite: www.teensunite.org

Trekstock: www.trekstock.com

Something to look forward to: somethingtolookforwardto.org.uk 

Little Princess Trust: www.littleprincesses.org.uk

Youth Cancer Trust – support and free holidays: www.youthcancertrust.org

Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust: www.ellenmacarthurcancertrust.org

Macmillan: Teenagers and young adults | Macmillan Cancer Support

Shine Cancer Support: www.shinecancersupport.org

The Robin cancer Trust: www.therobincancertrust.org  - a local charity for germ cell, ovarian and testicular cancer based in Wivenhoe