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Home > About us > Media centre > Latest news >Publication Date: 03 February 2009
CLIC Sargent is today launching the second phase of its review of community care and support for children and young people with cancer.
The Charity is calling all young people who have been treated for cancer in the past 18 months, and were aged 16-24 at the time to take part in an exciting new online survey.
Last year CLIC Sargent uncovered that children with cancer were spending more time in hospital than they needed to due to a lack of children’s community nurses and social workers. Now CLIC Sargent wants to talk to young people and young adults about their experiences outside of hospital.
According to one young cancer survivor, Manvir Randhawa, age 19: “Being sick is the easy bit. It is the other things - school, confidence, getting back to having friends, your emotions - that are really difficult. And yet children and young people are being left to cope with all of this on their own.”
Dr Carole Easton, Chief Executive of CLIC Sargent says: “Each day spent in hospital is an extra day a child is losing out on his or her childhood. Being cared for safely at home so that they can be with family and friends or go back to school not only helps young people with cancer lead as normal a life as possible, but also helps them cope better with the challenges of cancer treatment”.
There is more information on CLIC Sargent's More Than My Illness page.
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