National organisations

Bupa UK: booklets, videos and patient stories to help explain cancer to young children.

The Cancer Guide for Young People: written by Macmillan aimed at people aged 13-24.

Cancer Research UK: information aimed at young people with cancer aged 15 to 24 years.

Children & Young People's Cancer Association (CCLG - Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group): a UK children's cancer charity and a central hub for childhood cancer through the specialist expertise of our members and we provide trusted information to children and young people with cancer, their families, and everyone supporting them. (In 2019 CCLG and TYAC merged and in 2025 relaunched as CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association.)

Children with Cancer UK: a childhood cancer charity in the UK, supporting families and childhood cancer research. 

Macmillan Cancer Support: information for young people with cancer and young carers.

Maggie's: offers support free to anyone with cancer and their families who walk through their doors. They have centres alongside NHS hospitals and can also offer support online.

MSN Children & Young People with Cancer:  is charged with delivering the Scottish Government’s vision for cancer services – to ensure that children and young people in Scotland with a diagnosis of cancer attain the best possible outcomes, have access to appropriate specialist services, as locally as possible that are both safe and sustainable, and that the pathway of care is as equitable as possible regardless of where they live in Scotland. 

NHS inform:  information about cancer types in teenagers and young adults.

Teenage Cancer Trust: offers unique care and support, designed for and with young people. They run events for young people with cancer to help them regain independence and meet other young people going through something similar and provide easy-to-understand information about every aspect of living with cancer as a young person.

Teens Unite: provide those aged 13-24 with the social, emotional, and physical support that is vital to their recovery. They can come together with others their age who understand what they’re going through, and remember who they are as a person, not just a cancer patient.

Your Cancer Diagnosis: a guide written by TCT for those newly diagnosed with cancer.

Young Lives vs Cancer: a charity that helps children and young people (0-25) and their families find the strength to face whatever cancer throws at them. 

Young Persons Guide to Cancer: a guidebook based on what young people who have had cancer, and the clinical staff who helped them told the Teenage Cancer Trust they wanted to know.