The award-winning Contact magazine is a free quarterly magazine for families of children and young people with cancer.
Launched in 2004, it acts as an essential source of information and reduces the isolation that families with children diagnosed with a rare disease, such as cancer, inevitably face. Each themed issue focuses on one aspect of cancer in children and young people, and contains informative articles by childhood cancer professionals and stories from parents, young people and childhood cancer survivors.
In this edition, we hear from many different people who have navigated the world of children and young people’s cancer, and what has given them hope, even in the most challenging of times. We also hear from researchers and professionals on why, with new initiatives and pioneering research, there’s reason to be hopeful for the future.
What does good employer support for parents, patients and survivors look like? What are their legal rights? In this edition, we hear a variety of experiences from parents and survivors about how their place of work did – or, in some cases, didn’t – support them and the impact this had.
In this edition, we explore how each individual’s communication needs are unique – shaped by their personal experiences and preferred ways of sharing and receiving information.
This issue showcases many examples of how patients and families have empowered themselves to help them face the challenges of cancer.
This issue explores the range of different relationships that families face when their child is diagnosed with cancer. Patients and families begin an unfamiliar journey of trying to navigate existing relationships as well as forging new ones, such as when meeting other families on the ward and hospital staff. Each relationship comes with different expectations, benefits and challenges, but the importance of human connection in times of struggle is still the same.
In this issue of Contact magazine, all about education, we hear from parents, patients, professionals and teachers about their experiences of education, school and childhood cancer.
Innovation has stayed at the heart of our childhood cancer community and this issue showcases the many areas where it has transformed treatment, care and support for young patients throughout their cancer experience.
In this issue, we learn more about how children are supported with their food and nutrient intake to make sure they stay as healthy as possible throughout their cancer experience and beyond.
We are celebrating 100 issues of Contact in this edition! To mark this amazing milestone, this issue is dedicated to the incredible progress made in treating and caring for children with cancer.
This issue delves into the latest thinking behind exercise therapy and gives valuable advice and tips from experts on how to encourage activity at the hospital, school and home.
