Ten young people under the age of 25 are diagnosed with cancer every day. Eight will be cured; but many will become infertile as a result of their treatment and will not be able to have their own children.

Children having bone marrow transplants for conditions like Sickle Cell Anaemia can also lose their fertility during treatment.

Those undergoing the most intensive forms of treatment will almost certainly become infertile. 

This can be a devastating side effect that changes the course of their future and can have an immediate and long term demoralising effect psychologically.

The Future Fertility Trust is a ground-breaking new fund - the first of it's kind in the UK - that can help these young people by providing expert care and support to enable them to access the best possible fertility advice and treatment to help them preserve their fertility. 

So that cancer - once beaten - can be a distant memory, rather than something that continues to control a young person's destiny.

A multi-disciplinary team from across Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Oxford and the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has been researching the best ways to help these patients. 

Working with Oxford Hospitals Charity, this has led to the launch of the Future Fertility Trust Fund to offer help to young cancer patients. 

The service - the first of its kind in England and Wales - helps patients, from children through to young women, preserve their chance of having children by removing ovarian or testicular tissue before they receive their cancer treatment and storing it until they wish to try for a child.   

Your support will offer the gift of hope to children and young adults when they need it most.