Young Lives vs Cancer provides support to young people with lymphoma.

When a child is diagnosed with lymphoma life becomes full of fear, for them and their family. Fear of treatment, but also of families being torn apart, overwhelming money worries, of having nowhere to turn, no one to talk to.

At Young Lives vs Cancer, we help families find the strength to face whatever cancer throws at them. We’ll face it all together – but we can’t do it without you. ​​​​​​

Kian was diagnosed with type B non Hodgkin lymphoma when he was five years old. What started as constipation and sickness soon became more serious. After already taking Kian to the doctors once, his family rushed him back for a second opinion.

His mum Hayley, from Devon, tells their story:

“Within a few minutes our world turned upside down. The shock of hearing the words cancer was indescribable, we sat and looked at our little boy and cried and wished we could take it all away from him.

Seeing our son so poorly, changing, suffering and in so much pain was breaking us. He had loss of hair, sickness, diarrhoea, sweating, wetting the bed, temperature where you need antibiotics in case he got an infection. He’d sit there and cry on a morphine pump with mucositis.

That was the longest time of my life ever but at least he had his daddy by his side. My husband stayed by his bed and I lived between home and a room at the CLIC House (amazing people) as we also had two other children at home.

Our Young Lives vs Cancer Social Worker was our rock – anything and everything I needed help with, they were there for us.” Hayley.