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image captionMiss Forrester said she hoped her story inspired others to support the #Hand2Hold campaign
A campaign has started to prevent children and young people receiving cancer treatment alone in the pandemic.
Charities behind the #Hand2Hold campaign want to enable all young people aged 16 to 25 to be allowed a chaperone, instead of only some.
Mikaela Forrester, 18, from Somerset had some of her cancer treatments alone and said she did not want other young people to have that experience.
She said without her mother she found it scary and lonely .
Miss Forrester lives in Frome and was diagnosed in July 2019 with Stage 2 Hodgkin Lymphoma, an uncommon cancer that develops in the lymphatic system.