Specialist services - for young people with cancer
At Teenage Cancer Trust, we understand that teenage cancer requires specialist care.
We know how damaging it is to take a young person away from their normal life – their friends, their environment, and put them in a cancer ward with small children or older people.
We know that young people have a much better chance of survival if they are treated by teenage cancers experts, in an environment tailored to their needs. So we’re working every day to make that happen.
We don’t believe that teenagers should have to stop being teenagers, just because they have cancer. So we build specialist units in NHS hospitals which improve the quality of life and chances of survival for young people with cancer.
Teenagers and young adults have told us what they want
- Rapid access to cancer services offering accurate diagnosis and a competent assessment
- Clear and accurate information
- Evidence based treatment with access to clinical trials
- The best chance of survival with the least possible physical cost
- A high standard of age specific facilities
- Access to staff that understand them and their needs
- Peer support
- Psychological, social, educational, and employment support
- The best treatment as close to home as possible
Teenage Cancer Trust aims to provide teenagers and young adults these essential services.
Join TCTeeNation
From time to time Teenage Cancer Trust would like to contact you to get your views on national and international developments in services for young people with cancer, government policies and what you think about the issues facing young people with cancer every day.
Teenage Cancer Trust has reached the fourth year in our five year plan to deliver the best possible care and professional support to young people with cancer and their families.
We are now starting to look beyond the delivery of these plans and would like to engage with young people to identify the key issues you feel we should be addressing as part of future service development.
By joining TCTeeNation you help Teenage Cancer Trust shape the next phase of our work with young people with cancer. So if you are a young person between 13 and 24 who is currently being treated for cancer or you had cancer between those ages, we’d love to hear from you.
Empowering young people through education
We travel around the country and get as many young people as we can talking about cancer.
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