![]() ![]() If you’re not near a centre, you can access support and information on their website. Each centre is beside an NHS cancer hospital and is run by specialist staff. They offer care and support to people affected by cancer. Maggie’s is a national charity with centres across the UK. Learn more about help from the Young Lives vs Cancer charity.They can also help you access financial support. ![]() Young Lives vs Cancer (previously called CLIC Sargent) can offer help and support for parents who have a child recently diagnosed, or living with childhood cancer. You can download these from their website. The Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) produces booklets for parents and brothers and sisters of children with cancer that you may find helpful. The Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) ![]() There is also an online community you may like to join. They have information on different types of children’s blood cancers. They also provide patient information booklets and leaflets that you can download or order from their website. They can give advice about who can help you and what kind of support is available.īlood Cancer UK sponsors research into blood cancers such as leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma. Ask your child’s clinical nurse specialist if they can let you know what’s available.įor support and information, you can call the Cancer Research UK information nurses on freephone 08, from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. Some centres can also offer more formal psychosocial help and complementary therapies to parents. Specialist nurses and social workers at the hospital can offer support too. Talking to friends and other members of the family can help you deal with your feelings. It doesn’t show weakness to ask for help. It is essential that parents and other close family also have support. This might be help with shopping or with looking after other children in the family. Practical help and support is something people nearly always need. If you have other children most parents and grandparents worry about them as well. You are likely to worry about whether they will get the right treatment, what will happen, and how you will all cope. It is very normal to feel angry, sad, upset and shocked. It is extremely distressing to find out that your child has leukaemia. Coping with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) ![]()
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