Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month Stories

James Laiolo, a third-year medical student at Exeter University, was diagnosed with Burkitt’s lymphoma aged 21.

Dr Morven Brown, a health psychologist and childhood cancer researcher at Newcastle University, was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma aged 23

Richard Storry, 30, was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in November 2010 when aged 17.

Yami was diagnosed with Hogdkin lymphoma in July 2021, when aged 18.

Ellie Waters, a medical student at Keele University, was diagnosed with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma aged 14.

Ross Long was 16 years old when diagnosed with abdominal B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2013.

Kiya Kanani was diagnosed with stage four Hodgkin lymphoma in 2021 when aged 15.

Mila Rundic was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in September 2022 when she was 19 years old.