Health information for those who had cancer as a child, teenager or young adult.
Many children, teenagers and young adults are treated successfully for cancer. There are now over 40,000 survivors of childhood cancer in the UK who are supported with specialist health care and advice.
You may know a lot about your illness or you may know very little. You may have many questions about what happens next, and how your diagnosis and treatment may affect your future life.
The information on this website has been written by multi-professional experts in the field of children’s cancer and helps answer some questions you might have and explain why you may still need follow-up care.
After treatment
As a survivor of childhood cancer, it is important you are offered the opportunity to understand your previous treatment in a specialist long-term follow-up clinic.
This gives you an opportunity to learn about and plan the monitoring and support you may need. Follow up at this stage aims to detect and manage any long-term side effects (called late effects) which can happen after having cancer treatment. They can occur soon after treatment finishes or later in life.
Find out more about follow-up care and late effects
What do you need to know?
You may have lots of questions about life after treatment such as education, travel insurance, employment and fertility.
We hope that these information sections will help to answer many of the questions you might have about the possible impact of having had cancer as a child, teenager or young adult.
Common questions asked
Survivor experiences
We are grateful for other childhood cancer survivors who have kindly shared their experiences of life after having had cancer treatment as a child, teenager or young adult.
Read survivor stories
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