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Table 4 Scenes from There is a Light: BRIGHTLIGHT

From: BRIGHTLIGHT researchers as ‘dramaturgs’: creating There is a Light from complex research data

Act

Scene

Diagnosis

Being told you have cancer

Young people’s right to be involved in decisions

Impact of finding out a parent has cancer

Misdiagnosis 1

Reflection on having childhood cancer

Misdiagnosis 2

After the shock

Young people excluded from research

Undergoing treatment for cervical cancer

Consultation with the GP

Sensitive conversations with parents present

NHS versus private healthcare

Inequality in access to young person-specific cancer care

Developing and maintaining relationships when you have cancer

Support

Young person-related services provided in specialist units and inequalities in accessing these

Importance of carers

Death

Experience of losing a friend to cancer

In memory of people the cast have lost

Survival

Reflections on being cured

  1. GP General practitioner