Official Charity - Teenage Cancer Trust

Every day six young people in the UK are told they have cancer. Usually placed on a children’s ward or with elderly patients, young people often feel extremely isolated when facing a cancer diagnosis, never meeting another young person going through the same thing. Teenage Cancer Trust believes teenagers shouldn’t stop being teenagers because they have cancer and so fund and build specialist units in NHS hospitals that allow young people to be treated together with others their own age, in an environment suited to their needs.

Teenage Cancer Trust units aren't like ordinary cancer wards.  Their home-from-home atmosphere helps create a sense of normality.  The state-of-the-art units are bright and vibrant and will often include thing like pool tables, jukeboxes, games consoles, computers and webcams, ensuring they can keep in touch with family friends outside the hospital.  Alongside all this is a medical team of teenage cancer specialists whose knowledge creates a body of expertise that's second to none.

The new Teenage Cancer Trust unit at Addenbrooke's Hospital is now complete.  The unit will provide 11 in-patient beds plus open-plan social and recreation areas, a kitchen and dining area for patients and parents, digital lighting systems, broadband connectivity, and cutting edge computing, gaming, music, and entertainment. 

Developing our unit at Addenbrooke's is the first step in Teenage Cancer Trust's commitment to helping young people with cancer in East Anglia.  In addition we also fund specialist staff and provide a wide range of physical, psychological and emotional support to make sure these young people with cancer have the best chance of survival.

For more information please go to the Teenage Cancer Trust stand in the Secretary's tent during the show, or contact Helen Bearfield-Swift on 07852 998234 or email her at helen@teenagecancertrust.org and go to the charity website at http://www.teenagecancertrust.org/


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