A Reason To Live

Charlotte would also go on to share, “I’m an ambitious person but, like most people my age, I didn’t take life too seriously – you just don’t think about illness, let alone something like cancer. Being diagnosed brought me down to earth with an almighty smack. Thoughts of months of illness, pain and ultimately death were almost unbearable. But I wasn’t ready to accept my life was over before it had begun.”

Teenage Cancer Trust

Charlotte needed to start treatment as soon as possible. She would go to the Teenage Cancer Trust unit at the St. James University Hospital in Leeds. This was a special UK charity that would cater to the care and treatment of young people. And it was here that she would begin her one-year long treatment.