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.
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. You may know a lot about your illness or you may know very little.
Late effects
All cancer treatments are different and affect people in different ways. Most people have some side effects during treatment. But some people also have late effects of treatment.
What do I need to know?
These information sections will help to answer many of the questions you have on surviving cancer as a child, teenager or young adult.
Living beyond cancer information pack
Our 'Living beyond cancer' information pack has been written for you by clinical experts to help you live a healthy life after having cancer as a child, teenager or young adult.
Survivor stories
Childhood cancer survivors share their experiences.
Useful links
Useful information and organisations for people who have had cancer as a child, teenager or young adult.
Information in this section is from our Living Beyond Cancer booklet and Late Effects factsheets. Reviewed by the CCLG Late Effects Group, a national network of experts who specialise in looking after young cancer survivors, in conjunction with the CCLG Information Advisory Group comprising survivors, parents and multiprofessional experts in the field of childhood cancer.
Reviewed: September 2022
Next review due: September 2025