Join us and take part in our fundraising and awareness campaign by dressing in Pink or Blue, it’s up to you. You will be helping support teenagers and young adults living with cancer.
Bring your community together, gather round with your work mates, or get a dress up or down day booked in at your school, college or university.
The more people who get involved, the more money you can help us raise so we can continue to provide Care Support Packages, Age-Appropriate Rooms in hospitals and Research into rare and aggressive teenage cancers.
Read Lennon’s story and how your fundraising can help more young people receive the support they need when facing a cancer diagnosis.
I turned 18 in November 2024 and I am currently at college studying Biology, Chemistry and Maths. My goal is to go to university and study medicine. Unfortunately, in January 2025 I was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. I am currently receiving chemotherapy at University College London Hospital. To say my diagnosis came out of nowhere would be a huge understatement, we all thought I had a chest infection and that I just needed some antibiotics, how wrong we were!
I had a cough for a number of months, but I was fit and well and did not pay too much attention to it but was getting tired. I put this down to working hard at college and then working in the evenings and weekends at my part-time job.
After some blood tests, a chest x-ray, and a CT scan we were given the devastating news that that I had a huge mass in my chest plus a couple of smaller tumours one being on my thyroid. I started steroids and was no longer allowed to lie down flat as the doctors had found that mass in my chest was compromising the main arteries in my neck as well as putting pressure on my main organs.
I finished my first cycle of chemotherapy, and I am now halfway through my second cycle. I have to travel to London each time which is becoming incredibly expensive. I always go with one of my parents, there is no way they would let me go on my own, but because I am still in full time education and both my parents work we are unable to claim any benefits or get any travel costs refunded.
It is thanks to The Tom Bowdidge Youth Cancer Foundation and people like you helping to fundraise that my family and I have been given a grant to help with the travel costs and the food budget because the steroids make me ridiculously hungry!
I am so positive I can beat this; think of all the first-hand experience I have for my career in medicine!
Please do get involved with “Wear it Pink or Blue, it’s up to you Campaign” and help raise vital funds for more young people like me.
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