More Than a Survivor: Teenage Cancer Triumphs in Journalism

You'd think all ambition would be finished right there. Dreams gone. Surely that's logical?

If you get cancer in your teens and recover, you're still not going to achieve what you thought you could.

Maybe that's what many think. And maybe that's true for some. But that's not the case for Ellie Philpotts. 

She gets exclusives, such as breaking a national covid vaccination story in December 2020.

She’s written for Times Higher Education; The Telegraph; Reader's Digest; Metro; and HuffPost.  Credits include Senior Reporter at GPOnline, Haymarket Media Group, and regular freelance reporter at Doctors.net.uk. It's a long list.

She’s won a stack of awards including Best Scoop, Best Editorial Assistant and a High Commendation at the British Society of Magazine Editors Talent Awards; a finalist nod for Newcomer of the Year at the Medical Journalism Awards.

And this is only a snapshot. The point is that life hasn’t held her back. It hasn’t prevented her from grabbing the journalism and writing career she set her sights on at school.

And on top of everything, Ellie is also a tireless campaigner for teenage cancer awareness. The teenage numbers are climbing and at 15 Ellie developed Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Now London-based and in her 20s, this is Ellie, a teenage cancer survivor…

 

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