Section 4: Challenges

Fatigue is a common and often debilitating side-effect of cancer treatment or sometimes of the cancer itself.

Children and young people (CYP) may display changes in their behaviour during cancer treatment due to stress, unfamiliar environments, and medications. Understanding why this happens can help families and professionals effectively support them.

The need for invasive procedures is kept to a minimum and they are performed in the least painful and stressful way.

Information about hair loss and changes in appearance when children and young people have cancer.

It is natural for children and young people of all ages to regress when they are unwell. The manifestations of this vary with age.

Sleep patterns in children and young people (CYP) with cancer may be and most often are disrupted.

With a cancer diagnosis comes the necessity of taking medications.