ABOUT TEENAGE CANCER TRUST

Every day in the UK, six teenagers are told they have cancer. This is a rising figure and there are already more young people than children with the disease. These young people often get a raw deal, receiving hospital treatment in inappropriate facilities catering for children or the elderly.

Teenage Cancer Trust focuses on the needs of teenagers and young adults with cancer by providing specialist teenage units in NHS hospitals designed to give teenagers the very best chance of a positive outcome. As well as state-of-the-art facilities to keep patients occupied during long stays in hospital, the units provide an environment where teenagers can meet others in a similar situation.

The charity estimates that, with the units they currently have around the UK, only half of all teenagers diagnosed with cancer now have access to the dedicated, specialist support they provide. But Teenage Cancer Trust's aim is to build enough units so that, by 2012, every teenager will be treated on one.

You can help us right now by supporting Teenage Cancer Trust at the Carlton Charity Celebrity Cricket Event which is raising funds towards the costs of the first Teenage Cancer Trust unit for East Anglia at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. We need to raise £1 million locally towards the cost of the unit. Book your tickets to this fabulous event and help us to help Teenagers with cancer.

For more information on Teenage Cancer Trust visit www.teenagecancertrust.org