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Follow up after treatment

	Children and teens are often successfully treated for cancer, but follow-up support and reviews of their academic performance is important.

The cancer and its treatment may have caused physical problems and sometimes these effects, such as learning difficulties, or deficiencies in physical growth and development, are not evident for many years later.

Teachers should speak with the parent(s), school nurse or seek medical advice from the child’s medical team liaison if they see signs of the child encountering learning difficulties. This will enable effective support to be planned and implemented. If feasible and depending on the child’s level of understanding, it is a good idea to include them in parts of the planning required.

Here are a few tips from teachers and medical staff.


	Help the student find other people living with cancer to talk to or even a local support group, such as Macmillan’s self help and support groups and Macmillan’s CancerVoices Read or view other people’s experiences of cancer Determine and review their education goals Encourage the young person to view their cancer experience as a meaningful life event and keep a diary or journal of their thoughts and feelings Suggest they help other children with cancer as this is helpful to their healing process

For more information, contact our Macmillan CancerLine on 0808 808 2020, or email cancerline@macmillan.org.uk.