The Teenage Years: Natalie - Navigating fatigue, facing your mortality and dealing with dating - a podcast by Toby Peach & Alice-May Purkiss

AfterThoughts: The Teenage Years was created to make visible some of the invisible cancer stories from within the young cancer community.

Would you believe it! We're back for Series four and another series of The Teenage Years. We're absolutely bloomin' delighted about it too.

Our first storyteller  Natalie was diagnosed with follicular and papillary thyroid cancer at the age of 17. She joins us to talk about making phone calls to tell people you've got cancer, writing letters for loved ones in case you die (and then realising that maybe the things you wrote were a bit cringe) and being on Tinder as a cancer survivor with visible scars.

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AfterThoughts : The Teenage Years is supported by Teenage Cancer Trust. Teenage Cancer Trust support those diagnosed with cancer when they're 13-24 and provide specialised nursing care and support to get them through treatment.

As ever, AfterThoughts deals with some conversations you may find tricky to listen to. If you need any further support, please don't hesitate to reach out to a friend, or find support from any of the brilliant charities online.

AfterThoughts is produced by Toby Peach and Alice-May Purkiss from Beyond Arts. Sounds by Kieron Lucas and Dinah Mullen.

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