First-class facilities for teenage trust

Teenage Cancer Trust’s unit, built specifically for young cancer patients, will be the first of its kind in the South of England. It will provide teenagers with some of the best cancer facilities in the country, and is expected to improve survival rates.

New facilities will cost Teenage Cancer Trust £2 million pounds with £1.3 million of this raised locally.

A new permanent Teenage Cancer Trust unit within the hospital’s new Oncology Centre is being built. Which is due to start in 2010. This facility will give patients all of the usual facilities seen in other Teenage Cancer Trust units including en-suites, areas for socialising, computer and gaming facilities, and a kitchen to prepare food.

Two bone-marrow transplant beds within a new hematology unit will be put in place, which is being jointly supported by the Southampton Hospital Charity.

For more information about Teenage Cancer Trust and how you can get involved, email helenhaynes@teenagecancertrust.org