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T H E YO UNG P E O P L E ’ S C A N C E R UN I T
R E C EI VE S R OYAL VI SI T

Sarah, Duchess of York and HRH Princess
Eugenie helped Alder Hey celebrate the
second birthday of Alder Hey’s young
people’s oncology department.

On 13th September 2017, Teenage
Cancer Trust Honorary Patrons
Sarah, Duchess of York HRH
Princess Eugenie, joined Alder Hey
at the Teenage Cancer Trust funded
facility within Oncology Unit for
a birthday bash to mark two years
since the specialist unit opened.
They met patients aged 13 - 19
who are undergoing treatment for
various types of cancer.

Teenage Cancer Trust provided
£500k to help Alder Hey
enhance a dedicated teenage and
young adult facility within the
new hospital’s oncology unit in
2015 and worked with patients on
the design, making it feel more
like a home from home than a
hospital ward, and a space where unit openings across the UK. In
young people can get together this time she has met thousands Alder Hey is a Centre of
to support each other through of young people with cancer and Excellence for treating
treatment. been a passionate advocate for children and young people
raising awareness of the issues with cancer and the funding
Sarah, Duchess of York, is a long- they face and of the innovative from TCT has enabled
standing and tireless supporter support Teenage Cancer Trust Alder Hey to make vital
of Teenage Cancer Trust. She provides. Princess Eugenie enhancements to the teenage
officially opened the charity’s first and Princess Beatrice were area of our Oncology Unit,
specialist cancer unit in 1990, introduced to the charity by their creating a state-of-the-art
and has attended almost all of mother and became Honorary facility specifically designed
the charity’s 28 subsequent new Patrons in 2016. for young people.