YOUR MONEY IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE TO THE LIVES OF TEENAGERS FIGHTING CANCER IN THE EAST OF SCOTLAND
Teenage Cancer Trust estimates that, with the ten units they already have around the UK, four out of every 10 teenagers diagnosed with cancer now have access to a TCT Unit. Their aim is to build enough units so that by 2012, every teenager will be treated on one.
In Scotland we currently have one unit at the Beatson in Glasgow.
We have raised enough money in Edinburgh to fund the first unit in the Capital - this will be an 2 bed unit at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children for teenagers aged between 13 and 16 - work has begun with completion likely to be september 2009.
I am now raising funds for a unit at the Western General Hospital for older teenagers and young adults - aged between 16 and 24.
At the moment there are no age appropriate facilities for this group of young people fighting cancer in Edinburgh- they are treated on wards with much older people and often don't meet another person their own age during treatment.
Teenagers are treated in Edinburgh but come from many parts of the East of Scotland, from Cupar in Angus to Duns in the Borders
Please help me raise the money.Even although it was a while ago(!) I remember how hard it was being a teenager and to add cancer into that is unimaginable - let's work together to give them the most positive experience possible.
Lynne McNicoll
