In today’s episode we are joined by Martina Quirke to talk about Sophie, her 9 year old daughter who was diagnosed with ALL, Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in January 2023.

And while this is a very open and raw conversation - it is a hopeful one as Sophie's cancer has very successful outcomes.

We talk about the physical but also the psycho social side of cancer at this age, the need for greater psychological support, navigating friendships, inclusion and a loss of identity.

We talk about the fear, the anger, the stamina and the support it takes to find your way through.

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Joining us today is Paula Conlon, Community and Engagement Manager at Barretstown.

Paula has been working with Barretstown for 4 years, delivering their education and outreach programmes and here we discuss why it's so important to have age appropriate information shared to students, the benefits to the family experiencing childhood cancer and the students.

Every programme is unique, each script written to suit that circumstances and it's always age appropriate.

They talk about chemo, the freddie, the illness and focus on bravery.

We are delighted to showcase another example of amazing support available to families fighting childhood cancer.

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In this episode I’m joined by Michelle and Daniel Burke as they share the long road their son Alex has walked since diagnosis of Neuroblastoma aged one and a half.

Alex is now 4 and after every type of treatment including chemo, radiation, stem cell, immunotherapy, surgery and a very specific medication to treat a mutation - Alex is doing really well.

We talk about his initial symptoms and diagnosis, how Michelle was 30 weeks pregnant with a daughter to also care for when Alex was diagnosed, the years of treatments Alex went through and how last June the news was really not good - until suddenly, the good news they al had hoped for arrived.

We also talk about the supports along the way from Hand in Hand in Galway, play therapists and our Beads of Courage programme.

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