For children/young people

2bme is specifically for teenagers with cancer. This website focuses on the non-medical aspects of cancer, from skin and hair to fitness and friends.

Web: 2bme.org/2bMe.html

Camp Simcha is the only charity working specifically to help Jewish children in the UK with cancer.

Web: http://www.campsimcha.org.uk top of page

A website and computer game for young people with cancer. Captain chemo is a cartoon character created by a former patient at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

Web: http://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/captchemo/index.asp

Group Loop is a place for teens with cancer and their parents to build an online community to find support, education and hope whilst dealing with a cancer diagnosis. The Teens Talk 2 Teens section of the website gives you access to special online support groups.

Web: www.grouploop.org/content/teenstalk.asp

Deals with all issues of teenagers with cancer.

Web: http://www.teenagecancertrust.org

Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer (TYAC) is a membership organisation which helps all professionals involved in the care of young people with cancer to work together to improve knowledge and services.

Web: www.tyac.org.uk/

A website dedicated to teenagers living with cancer, including a community forum where members can discuss issues and share their experiences.

Web:www.teenslivingwithcancer.org/

Why Bother? is a children and young people friendly Macmillan Cancer Support website providing a wide range of information on cancer.

Web: www.whybother.org.uk/index.html

A collection of interviews with young people about their experiences of health or illness. They tell you what it’s really like! www.youthhealthtalk.org aims to identify the issues, questions and problems that matter to young people.

Web: http://www.youthhealthtalk.org/

Web: www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/EducationAndTraining/index.htm

Click4tic provides honest information, advice and support on how to cope with cancer, and join a community of young people. Make friends, write a blog and share your experiences of cancer with others.

Web: www.click4tic.org.uk/dealwithit/education

Group Loop is a safe place for teens with cancer and their parents to build an online community and find support whilst dealing with a cancer diagnosis. The cancer, school and you section provides practical information and advice on issues surrounding education. 

Web: www.grouploop.org/content/csy.homepage.asp

To provide teenagers who are suffering from long term or life threatening illness with access to computer technology thereby enabling them to continue their education and maintain contact with their school, so as to continue to develop key life skills and help them in coping with their illness be that in hospital or at home.

Web: http://www.mattdotcom.org.uk

National charity promoting opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of impairment in post-16 education, training and employment.

Web: www.skill.org.uk/

Provides one on one and telephone counselling for cancer patients, their families, friends and carers who seek counselling to help them through the difficult issues precipitated by a cancer diagnosis.

Web: www.cancercounselling.ork.uk/

CanTeen Ireland is a nation-wide support group for young people who have or have had cancer, and for their brothers, sisters and friends. As a group we meet up 6 to 8 times a year. At these meetings we have a chance to talk, share stories and have a bit of fun.

Web: www.canteen.ie/

A collection of video diaries, animations and other creative recordings, made by young cancer patients about their cancer journeys.

Web: www.jimmyteens.tv/about-us/ top of page

This website aims to give young people with cancer a variety of information based on the actual experience. The writers hope it will inspire and help empower the individual to maintain identity and sense of self.

Web: www.mynameisnotcancer.com

Social network for teenagers and young adults with cancer. Based in the United States.

http://www.planetcancer.org/html/index.php

Cancer Support Scotland (Tak Tent) is a national cancer support charity which was founded in 1980 by Professor Sir Kenneth Calman. It seeks to promote the care of cancer patients, their families and friends by providing free emotional support through complementary therapies and counselling.

Web: www.cancersupportscotland.org

Teenage Cancer Trust is a charity devoted to improving the lives of teenagers and young adults with cancer.

Web: www.teenagecancertrust.org/health-info/forum/

Provides the addresses and telephone numbers of local services providing counselling, advice, information, befriending, for children and adolescents.

Web: http://www.youthaccess.org.uk/

The Youth Cancer Forum Scotland has been set up to develop a youth led forum and provide a platform for the interests of young people across Scotland who are affected by cancer.

Web: www.ycfscot.org/

Both a forum and a collection of interviews with young people about their experiences of health or illness. They tell you what it’s really like. www.youthhealthtalk.org aims to identify the issues, questions and problems that matter to young people.

Web: www.youthhealthtalk.org/Teenage_Cancer/Forum