When your child has cancer...
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Childhood cancer is thankfully rare and the past few decades have seen dramatic improvements in the outlook for children diagnosed with the disease; today more than three-quarters survive. We hear from three mothers – Sam, June and Jenny - whose children were diagnosed. How did they cope day to day watching their offspring struggle through endless treatment? How does it impact the rest of the family? And how has the experience affected their response to the world around them?
Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Kirsty Starkey
Interviewed Guest: Sam Waters-Long Interviewed Guest: Jenny Grenfell-Shaw Interviewed Guest: June Williams Interviewed Guest: Helen Campbell Interviewed Guest:, Anna Regan
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| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:41.0 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Women's Hour Podcast for Thursday, the 27th of February. |
| 0:47.0 | Good morning. You may remember a couple of months ago we talked to a young woman, |
| 0:52.2 | Ellie, about her treatment for cancer and how hard |
| 0:56.5 | it had been. She was 19 and she'd agreed to discuss her illness and her recovery when the |
| 1:01.8 | teenage cancer trust had released a report explaining |
| 1:05.4 | how the management of cancer and young people often means the fertility of 15% of patients |
| 1:11.4 | will be impaired, but they're often denied any proper information about |
| 1:16.2 | what the effects will be. |
| 1:18.6 | It led us to wonder how parents managed to deal with the frightening news that their child has cancer. |
| 1:25.0 | Would they be prepared to hold back on treatment to give their child a chance to express an |
| 1:29.0 | opinion on how they want to proceed? |
| 1:31.5 | Or would they be so desperate to save their child's life |
| 1:33.9 | that they will rush into making decisions on the child's behalf and how do you cope |
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