Why we need your support
With your support, we can provide the best possible care and professional support to more young people with cancer.
Teenage Cancer Trust exists to improve the quality of life and chances of survival for young people with cancer.
- It costs between £500,000 and £3,500,000 depending on the nature, size and location to build and equip a new unit.
- We also fund frontline staff such as Youth Support Co-ordinators and Nurse Consultants.
- We also need to make sure units include everything young people need to be kept fully occupied and entertained during their stay - whether it's computers, TVs, juke boxes or simply a pool table.
We don't receive any government funding, so we rely on voluntary donations from people like you.
We estimate that with the units we currently have around the UK, only half of the teenagers diagnosed with cancer have access to this dedicated, specialist support. So we need to do more. Our aim is to build enough units so that, by 2012, every single teenager will be treated on one.
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