Patient advocate Aleisha shares her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer as a young mother, highlighting how the greatest challenges often come after treatment ends. Drawing on lived experience, she speaks to the mental health impacts, isolation, and lack of age-appropriate information faced by young women with cancer. Aleisha underscores the urgent need for dedicated, accessible spaces that reflect the realities of young women’s lives – parenting, careers, fertility, and survivorship – and explains why initiatives like bravespace are critical to ensuring young women feel seen, supported and not alone.
