Five young women from the West Midlands, all diagnosed with cancer in their teens, share their moving story of friendship in this Teenage Cancer Trust film.

Charlie, Georgina, Leah, Sophie and Lauren have all been treated on the Teenage Cancer Trust unit at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The charity-funded unit brings young people aged 16 to 24 across the region to be treated together on a ward designed just for them, as opposed to on an adult ward, where they could be treated alongside people as old as their grandparents. During treatment the fivesome bonded and are now ‘friends for life’.

Their inspiring story of friendship in the face of brain and blood cancers is explored in the film, which has been made in support of Teenage Cancer Trust’s new Friendship and Cancer campaign.