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Cancer - Teenage and Young Adult
The North Thames TYA Cancer Network aims to support young patients, aged between 13-24 with a cancer diagnosis. The Network extends across North London, Essex and Hertfordshire and sees more referrals than any other region. The Network is supported by the TYA Service Specifications, launched by NHS England in a bid to ensure that young people have an equal access to care and support, regardless of where they are being treated.
NHS England Specialist cancer services for children and young people: teenage and young adults designated hospitals
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The Network team aim to deliver on key standards
- Delivering a good patient experience across the region
- Offering equal access to age-appropriate support
- Implanting good mental health support
- Providing access to clinical trials and whole genome sequencing where relevant
- Supporting young people when they finish cancer treatment
- Ensure timely access to fertility preservation with a clear explanation of options
- Access to expert symptom control and palliative care services in hospital and in the community
- Timely diagnosis of a cancer
- Transitioning young people from paediatric to adult healthcare services, ensuring there is no gaps in care
- Ensuring that young people have a choice about where and how they receive their cancer treatment
- Advocating for the TYA population within the cancer community
- Ensuring that the patient voice is present in decision making
Teenage Cancer Trust Webinar Series
The ‘Teenage Cancer Trust Webinar Series’ is a series of webinars hosted by Teenage Cancer Trust to provide professional development on ‘Teenage and Young Adult’ related topics for our frontline colleagues and wider healthcare professionals. It is an opportunity to share good practice, current developments, research, and to network with colleagues. These webinars are 1 hour long and include an opportunity for questions and answers; they are also recorded for playback and for those unable to attend. Teenage Cancer Trust hosts these webinars in the spirit of sharing experience for the benefit of the ‘Teenage and Young Adult’ cancer service.
Meet the team
Dr Ben Carpenter
TYA Cancer Clinical Director
About
Dr Ben Carpenter is a consultant haematologist who specialises in treating teenagers and young adults with both malignant and non-malignant conditions. He has a particular interest in cellular therapies for non-malignancy conditions including primary immunodeficiencies, thalassaemia and sickle cell disease, and is actively involved with clinical research in these areas.
Lisa-Marie Mcmonagle
TYA Cancer Lead Nurse
About
Lisa Mcmonagle is the Teenage Cancer Trust Nurse Consultant at UCLH, and the Lead Nurse for the North Thames TYA Cancer Network. She is particularly interested in the health inequalities experienced by young people with cancer and how services can be improved to address these. Lisa completed her Advanced Practice MSc at King’s College in 2015 and having work as an ANP she is also passionate about developing nursing practice.
Previously a member of the EBMT Committee, Lisa has published papers and presented on the topics of Ambulatory Care in Cancer, TYA experience of BMT and nurse led service initiatives.
Dr Elinor Sefi
TYA Transition Clinical Lead
About
Dr Elinor Sefi is a General Paediatrician based at the Whittington Hospital. She specialises in general paediatrics, paediatric shared care oncology and paediatric rheumatology. She is also an honorary associate professor at UCL medical school and runs the paediatric UCL undergraduate medical programme at the Whittington.
