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Daily Record Pride of Scotland award winner Georgie shares her cancer story in powerful podcast
Seventeen-year-old is also urging people to get behind her as she attempts to raise £100,000 for charity.
A BRAVE Scots teenager is sharing her story about living with cancer in a powerful podcast out today.
Georgie Hyslop, 17, will be joined by sister Megan, 19, on RadioTherapy, as they discuss how the disease has impacted the whole family.
The podcast began as an idea from Julie Cain, Teenage Cancer Trust 's National Lead Nurse for Scotland.
Now on its fifth series, the podcast has been praised for tackling difficult topics with honesty, warmth and insight – helping young people feel less alone during treatment.
Georgie, of Ardrossan, Ayrshire, won the Teenager of Courage award at the Daily Record Pride of Scotland Award ceremony in June.
For the past five years our People's Oscars have celebrated the ordinary Scots whose acts of kindness and selfless bravery make this country great.
Georgie won the award for raising an incredible £51,000 despite her cancer diagnosis.
But she's determined to double her efforts and is teaming up with fellow Pride of Scotland winner Calum's Cabin on Saturday to zipline across the River Clyde to raise cash for the charity.
Her proud mum Lynn said: 'Calum's Cabin send so many families with a child with cancer on breaks and do so much for them during hospital stays and after treatment.
'Georgie said at Pride of Scotland she aimed to get her fundraising to £100,000, so hopefully people will get behind her and make a donation for such an amazing charity.'
In December 2023, Georgie went to the doctor with leg pain and they initially thought it was a stress fracture.
The fracture wasn't healing and, after an MRI and CT scan, she was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma – a rare cancer which occurs in the bones or in the soft tissue around them.
Determined not to let cancer get the better of her, Georgie immediately looked to help others by agreeing to donate her tissue to Cancer Research and vowing to fundraise.
In the months after her diagnosis she raised more than £15,000 for the Schiehallion Ward at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow, the Teenage Cancer Trust and Marion's House.
Throughout her treatment, which included 14 rounds of chemotherapy and 33 rounds of radiation, Georgie never stopped thinking of ways to help others and continued to organise family fun days, raffles and a ball.
In July 2024, Georgie was given the news she was in remission but earlier this year scans revealed her cancer had returned.
She said: 'The survival rates for Ewing sarcoma are single digits but I've always said I will be one of those digits. I don't see why I can't be.
'My main aim is to help others going through the same thing.
'My family and I were sent on a break by Calum's Cabin during my relapse.
'In June, I was so happy that I won a Pride of Scotland award for Teenager of Courage and on the evening we were so happy to find out Calum's Cabin had also won a pride of Scotland special recognition award.
'I couldn't pass up an opportunity to zipline the Clyde for a charity so close to our hearts.'
Lynn added: 'Georgie's doing well at the moment. Her last scans were stable which meant she was able to get her central line out and her next scan is in October.
'She's looking forward to the zipslide and I'd urge families facing a cancer diagnosis to listen to the RadioTherapy podcast today.
'We're so proud of Georgie and Megan and if their podcast helps just one other family going through this, it's done its job.'
