National Charity Partner – Teenage Cancer Trust
Teenage Cancer Trust is the Rangers Charity Foundation’s National Charity Partner for season 2009/10. The charity builds specialist units in NHS hospitals which improve the quality of life and chances of survival for young people with cancer.
Over the course of the season, the Rangers Charity Foundation will aim to raise £30,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust to equip specialist facilities at the new Children’s Hospital in Glasgow and at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh.
 A kitchen/eating area will be created at Teenage Cancer Trust’s unit in Glasgow and a chill-out room at the Edinburgh unit. These will bring young people with cancer together, helping them to make new friends of their own age so they can support each other.
Teenage Cancer Trust understands that teenage cancer requires specialist care and that young people have a much better chance if they are treated by teenage cancer experts, in an environment tailored to their needs.
At a time when a teenage's body is changing, their social life is everything and they are still trying to figure out who they are, getting cancer can seem like an impossible blow to take. 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.
 The charity estimates that only half of the teenagers diagnosed with cancer in the UK currently have access to dedicated, specialist support. The charity aims to build enough units so that, by 2012, every single teenager with cancer will be treated in a specialist unit.
Dawn Crosby, Teenage Cancer Trust’s Head of Scotland and Northern Ireland, commented: “We are delighted that the Rangers Charity Foundation will be supporting Teenage Cancer Trust this year. Every day, six young people are diagnosed with cancer, but we don’t believe they should stop being teenagers just because of their diagnosis.
“The units the Foundation will be raising money for are designed to be as close as possible to a person’s life outside. Most importantly they give young people the very best chance of a positive outcome. We want every young person with cancer in Scotland to have that chance.”
For further information on Teenage Cancer Trust, click here to visit the charity’s website.
Teenage Cancer Trust (Registered charity no: 1062559 (England & Wales), SCO39757 (Scotland))
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