With the COVID-19 pandemic delaying many of its plans, Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer (TYAC) has revisited its ambitious 2020-2025 strategic plan. Ashley Ball-Gamble, CEO of TYAC and CCLG, explains more.
In TYAC's ambitious strategy for 2020 - 2025, one of our aims was to lead and fund world-class research dedicated to teenage and young adult cancers. Following a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, today we're proud to launch our first research strategy to help fulfil that goal.
A key role of TYAC is producing good practice guidance for professionals working with teenage and young adults with cancer. The aim of our Good Practice Guides is to provide information, advice and support for providing effective TYA cancer services, and ultimately ensuring the best possible experience for young people with cancer.
The TYAC (Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer) Professional Education Group has an exciting opportunity for young people to become a Young People's Representative. The role will be at the heart of the the group's efforts to improve the care of teenage and young adults during and following cancer treatment.
Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer (TYAC) is proud to have funded its first two research projects to help young people with cancer.
Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer (TYAC) is proud to announce it has funded two brand-new research projects that will answer questions important to teenagers and young adults with cancer.
NHS England has this week published new ‘service specifications’ for teenage and young adult cancer services in England. These documents outline the standards that are expected in teenage and young adult cancer services, including in Principal Treatment Centres and Designated Hospitals.
We are delighted to welcome our new TYAC Chair Liz Purnell, Lead Nurse for Teenagers & Young Adults with Cancer for South Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, and North Derbyshire, and Executive member Hanna Simpson, Lead Nurse for Teenagers & Young Adults with Cancer, Ambulatory Care and Withington Unit at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust.
On 23 April 2024, the TYAC Professional Education Group is running a session aimed at helping staff better understand the experiences of young people with cancer as part of Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group's (CCLG) Annual Conference.
The purpose of this section is to give you the knowledge you need to help your child: how you can recognise pain, some information about different types of pain and what you and your nurses and doctors can do to try to relieve pain.
