About Teenage Cancer Trust

Each day in the UK, six teenagers will find out they have cancer. These young people often get a raw deal, receiving hospital treatment in inappropriate facilities catering for children or the elderly.

Teenage Cancer Trust understands that teenage cancer requires specialist care and knows that young people have a much better chance in their fight against cancer if they are treated by teenage cancers experts, in an environment tailored to their needs. So the charity is working every day to make that happen, building specialist units in NHS hospitals.

Teenage Cancer Trust units aren't like ordinary cancer wards. Everything about them has been designed to give teenagers the very best chance of a positive outcome. The charity estimates that, with the units they currently have around the UK, around half of teenagers diagnosed with cancer now have access to the dedicated, specialist support they provide. But Teenage Cancer Trust's aim is to build enough units so that, by 2012, every teenager will be treated on one.

To find out more please visit www.teenagecancertrust.org
Teenage Cancer Trust is a registered charity no. 1062559