The Teenage Cancer Trust ’s top priority is building units in NHS hospitals specifically for teenagers with cancer. As well as superior medical facilities, these units are equipped with day rooms, kitchens and chill-out rooms where teenagers can relax and feel at home or have friends and family to visit in a comfortable environment. Most importantly, the units provide an environment where teenagers can meet others in a similar situation and allow patients to build friendships and mechanisms to cope with their disease.
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Duchess of York is a founding Patron of TCT and attends all unit openings, as well as events to raise money.
TCT has built 8 units around the UK so far and estimate that to reach their goal of giving every teenager with cancer in the UK access to treatment in a specialist unit, they will need to build at least 15 more.
