Navigation was the theme of Chai Cancer Care’s dinner, where two young North Londoners explained how the support charity had helped them to navigate a future path.

In the appeal video, Jack Morgan, 21, and Laura Moses, 29, spoke candidly about the impact of cancer on their lives, moving the 700 guests at the Roundhouse in Camden to donate £1.2 million.

Mr Morgan was 20 when diagnosed with undifferentiated carcinoma of the eye. Ms Moses was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and the BRCA gene at 27.

Both have made it their mission to raise awareness of cancer among young people.

“What was scary was going into the unknown,” he said. “It just didn’t feel real, like it wasn’t happening to me. The hardest parts for me were the treatment, the chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the nausea, lack of energy. You just feel like death.”

For Ms Moses, “I probably hit the ground when I heard the words ‘you’ve got cancer’. It’s scary and disorientating. You hear those words and you can’t help but think, ‘I’ve got cancer, I’m going to die’.”

Mr Morgan has received the all-clear and Ms Moses has been cancer-free for two years. But she acknowledged that “a cancer journey never ends.

“I cannot imagine having gone through what I’ve gone through — and what I’m about to face in my future — without Chai.”

The charity supports close on 3,500 community members affected by a cancer diagnosis.