Huge congratulations to our winners! We look forward to welcoming our survivors Magdalena (Poland), Jarly (UK), Bojan (Macedonia), Andrea (Spain) and Radu (Romania) and their guests to Cluj-Napoca this August for UNTOLD Festival! Thanks again to the promoters, and if you weren’t lucky this time keep an eye out for future opportunities. More to come…
DetailsFinding Out About Late Complications Erik is a young cancer survivor from Sweden. Like many other survivors, he has faced the difficulty of late effects as a result of his cancer treatment. While this is a very common issue for a large number of survivors, it is still a taboo subject that patients are often…
DetailsWe’ve teamed up with the amazing Untold Festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, to once again invite a number of lucky survivors to this year’s festival, taking place 2nd-5th August. 2018’s spectacular line-up includes The Prodigy, Bonobo, Armin Van Buuren, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Afrojack and many more! We have 5 double passes to give away, scroll down for…
DetailsCancer patient and YCE ambassador Kasia, from Poland, joined us at our latest annual meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania. In this interview, she tells us more about the issues around cancer treatment and lack of patient information in Poland, as well as the difficulties in accessing additional support from specialists in smaller towns away from the…
DetailsMeet cancer survivors and YCE ambassadors Dusan and Milos. Both survivors of childhood cancer, in this video they discuss the lack of information available to young cancer patients in their native Serbia, as well as the stigma and misconceptions around cancer in society. Both Dusan and Milos represent the amazing Serbian childhood cancer organisation called MladiCe
Fay, hailing from the UK, has written this beautiful piece for the Youth Cancer Europe blog which we’re very proud to host. Entitled “To The Next One”, Fay’s blog is a letter written for the next young person to be diagnosed or currently going through cancer treatment. It addresses the questions, fears and different emotions that young people living…
DetailsErik Sturesson is a wonderful young man from Sweden. An active member of the YCE community, Erik runs a personal blog page in which he discusses, amongst other things, his journey through cancer and late effects, including his battle with depression. Romanian childhood cancer charity Little People invited Erik to attend their recent Christmas Gala…
DetailsFebruary 4th is #WorldCancerDay. Here at Youth Cancer Europe, we continue to fight harder than ever to ensure that the voices of young cancer patients and survivors are heard across the continent, empowering them to become a key part of how cancer treatment and after-care is shaped in their own territories, and ensuring that the…
DetailsWe spoke to Martynas and Aurimas from Lithuania’s Junior Doctors’ Association about the need for young cancer patients and survivors to be part of the discussion that shapes medical care for current and future generations. Watch their interview here
My name is Dragos-Cristian Finaru, I’m 30 years old and come from Bacau County which is in Romania. I was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and finished treatment when I was 20 years old. What do you recall from your cancer treatment, can you share any thoughts and feelings, even fears you had at the time? and what helped…
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