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Hearing from young people who have been affected by cancer can be a good way to better understand what it really means, and can also be a source of reassurance and support if you are going through a similar experience yourself. Here are some stories from young people who want to share their experiences of cancer with you. If you want to talk further about anything that comes up in these stories, you can contact us for more information and advice, or you can discuss it on our messageboards. I went to bed one night with a pain which we thought was indigestion. All through the night the pain got worse and worse and I ended up not getting any sleep that night. My brother Matt had cancer twice. The first time, Matt was 8 and I was 9. It came back a few years later, when I was 12. I wasn’t really around much when Matt was in hospital as my mum and dad wouldn’t let me stay with him. My friend Chloe stopped coming to school about a year ago and we didn’t really know why. Then we found out that she had been diagnosed with leukaemia, a type of cancer. | 
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