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.
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.
