© 2001 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 8, 577-578,
April 18, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press
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U.K. Charity Focuses On Treatment for Teenagers
Its cancer services may be suffering from lack of cash from the state-funded National Health Services, but Britain is playing a pioneering role in the care of teenage patientsthanks to charity.
The Teenage Cancer Trust was formed in the late 1980s after the mother of a 13-year-old with cancer highlighted the trauma of having cancer during the turmoil of adolescence. She was concerned that