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Living With and Beyond Cancer Research Fund

Many of the research priorities identified by children and young people with cancer themselves, their families, and those who treat and care for them, relate to living with and beyond cancer

Living with and beyond cancer

  • 45,000

    in the UK are alive having been diagnosed with a childhood cancer

  • ~ 2 in 3

    suvivors will have a long-term side effect related to their cancer treatment, which may affect them throughout their life

  • > 4,000

    children and young people are diagnosed with cancer every year in the UK

Many of the research priorities identified by children and young people with cancer themselves, their families, and those who treat and care for them, relate to living with and beyond cancer – meeting support needs during treatment, reducing or reversing the side effects of treatment, and improving the experience of care, for example.

We also know that many survivors of children and young people’s cancer will experience long-term side effects as a result of their treatment, which may not show until years after treatment is finished.

Funds raised by the CCLG Living with and Beyond Cancer Research Fund will support pioneering research addressing these priorities, aiming to improve treatment, care and support both during and beyond treatment, changing the future for children and young people with cancer.

Cancer in young people

A group of smiling young people getting off a tube train

Living beyond cancer

Many children, teenagers and young adults are treated successfully for cancer. There are now over 45,000 survivors of childhood cancer in the UK who are supported with specialist health care and advice.

A young woman sitting a desk talking through results with a doctor

Cancer in children and young people

More children and young people than ever before are surviving cancer. There have been huge improvements in cancer treatment for young people in the past 50 years.