Help support young cancer patients today

The best treatment, support and care for young patients starts with our specialist service. The Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) service at The Christie now treats 270 young people with cancer every year.

But with your support, our experts could do so much more for young cancer patients. Please donate to help today.

Why our Teenage and Young Adult service needs your help

In 2014, when our young oncology unit outgrew its location, we opened The Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) service – with £10 million raised by wonderful supporters of The Christie Charity.

Over the past 10 years, the TYA service has helped thousands of young people with cancer so they can live longer, healthier lives. Today, a donation from you can help us keep supporting young cancer patients and stay at the forefront of TYA research and care.

Donating to our TYA service campaign will help to fund several different areas for young people with cancer: specialist research, specialist support and specialist care.

How you’ve already supported young patients

Thanks to generous Christie Charity supporters like you, our TYA service has already helped so many young cancer patients. Patients like Taylor, who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in March 2023 and treated at the TYA service at The Christie. He says he’s forever in debt to The Christie – read Taylor’s story to see why he’s supporting our TYA service campaign.

Our TYA service treats around 270 new patients each year and its specialist approach is unique in terms of cancer care across the country. The service provides specialist support to help young patients cope with the symptoms of their illness and support them through cancer treatment. As well as treating the cancer, we also help with patients’ emotional and psychological well-being.

The Christie’s occupational therapy is recognised as a leading service in England. Our professionals provide advice and support for other occupational therapists working with young people across the country.

Young people having treatment can feel cut off from their world. So the TYA unit provides a creative and supportive community space where they can relax and just be themselves.

We have a jukebox, pool table, Xbox games and music room with instruments – and more. We run creative workshops in arts and crafts. There’s also complementary therapy and stress management techniques.

Our unique approach helps young people build strength and resilience to live life beyond cancer. For example, our unique service ‘Your Way Forward’ offers young people money management, mental health and life skills too.

Every day, more young people will hear the devastating news that they have cancer. Your kind donation today can help us not only save lives, but save futures too. Though it may feel as if life is on pause, we can offer young patients at The Christie hope of an amazing life yet to come.