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There’s never a good time to get cancer, but for a teenager the timing seems particularly cruel. Young people can get some of the most rare and aggressive forms of cancer. The emotional upheaval of adolescence can make a cancer diagnosis even harder to cope with.
Every day in the UK, six young people will have to face that diagnosis. Teenage Cancer Trust understands that teenage cancer requires specialist care and in fact, that young people have a much better chance in their fight against cancer if they are treated by teenage cancer experts, in an environment tailored to their needs.
Teenage Cancer Trust builds units in NHS hospitals which improve the quality of life and chances of survival for young people with cancer. But as we receive no government funding, we rely on voluntary donations from people like you. It costs around £2million to build and equip a new unit. We estimate that with the units we currently have around the UK, only half of the teenagers diagnosed with cancer now have access to this dedicated, specialist support. Our aim is build enough units so that, by 2012, every single teenager with cancer will be treated on one.
Teenage Cancer Trust also run the Hair 4 U project set up in Scotland to help young people (aged 13 -24) who have lost their hair because of treatments for cancer.
It's hard enough being a teenager without throwing cancer into the equation and losing their hair is often one of the most difficult aspects of treatment for them to handle.
Through this project young people are given a real hair wig and have it styled to suit them by professional hairdressers experienced in styling wigs.
All money raised by our skydive will go towards the Hair 4 U project.
For more information about TCT and how you can get involved, call Lynne McNicoll on 07901 555 352
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Janie, Alison, Anneka, Claire, Christine, Fiona and Elaine
