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As one of over 45,000 survivors of childhood cancer now in the UK, it is important that you are offered the opportunity to understand your previous treatment and how it might impact your future health.

Having a child diagnosed with cancer will affect you as parents or carers, and the people close to you.

You may feel overwhelmed with feelings and emotions and this is completely normal and understandable.

When a child is diagnosed with cancer, it obviously has a big effect on them. They may be very frightened as well as feeling unwell and having side effects of treatment to cope with.

Maintenance therapy is used to mop up any remaining cancer cells left after initial intensive treatment. This stage of treatment is used for many, but not all, types of cancer.

There are various ways you can help to reduce your child’s chances of infection.

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Alternative treatments are unconventional and unproven therapies that aim to treat cancer.

Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is a type of blood cancer. Around 80 children develop AML in the UK each year.

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a type of blood cancer. About 80 children of all ages develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in the UK each year. It is more common in boys than girls.