Our colleagues at Shine Cancer Support have shared this opportunity with our community:
Applications for Shine Cancer Support’s January online programmes are now open!
If you’re aged 20-49 and you’re living with or beyond cancer you don’t have to cope on your own. Our online programmes give you the opportunity to meet other people going through similar experiences. We meet in a small group online over six weeks to have some of the conversations that often go unaddressed; we talk about managing uncertainty, how relationships are affected, processing your emotions, looking forward, and changes in your identity (among others!). We have three programmes running in January and applications are open now - you can apply following the links below.
Break Out - a programme for anyone who has had a cancer diagnosis in their 20s, 30s or 40s
Circles - a group for people in our community living with an incurable or chronic cancer diagnosis
Reset - for people who’ve been diagnosed between the ages of 20-28
Looks great, thank you so much for sharing @Ali_BloodCancerUK. Nice to be young enough to join these!
Sadly I’m just too many time zones away for these morning sessions, so hopefully other youthful forum members can attend and share how these go for them.
If my experience of attending a similar group is anything to go by then these Shine programmes will hopefully come to feel very supportive for those who attend.
Dear @Tara
Thank you for posting.
I would expect that the Circles group would include any young adult that has been told their disease is not curable or that they have a treatable but non curable disease.
Acute Leukaemia’s would be classified as curable unless multiple lines of treatment have failed and that this has been discussed with the Treatment Team.
Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia is a disease that needs continuous treatment (with treatment breaks for some) but will have a very good prognosis, and can expect to live a normal lifespan and enjoy a good quality of life.
If it is helpful we can talk through this on the Support Line: 0808 2080888
Take good care
Gemma