Policies in Health and Social Care for Teenage Cancer in the UK

Health and Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The concept of teenage cancer is more common than in children’s or older adults. the
cancer among the young public accounts for about less than 1% of all the very new cases in the
United Kingdom. The statistics of the cancer among adults are usually classified according to the
site of the tumour in the body like breast, bowel, as well as lung. It is analysed from the survey
that about 1200 new cancer cases are occurring among teenage females and about 1100 cases are
occurring among teenage males every year in United Kingdom. The cancer incident rates are
much higher among teenagers between the age of 20 to 24. In this report, it will cover the
policies in both social as well as health care sector among the teenage group for struggling or
overcoming the leading cause. It will also cover the impacts of such healthcare and social care
policies on the care providers as well as the service users (Challinor, 2021).
MAIN BODY
A cancer is a large group of diseases which generally can start in almost any of the organ
or tissue inside the body when the abnormal cells are growing uncontrollably. It usually goes
beyond the boundaries of the cells and can invade the adjoining parts of the body and can spread
to another parts of the organ. It then later processed to become metastasizing and can leads to
cause death among people from cancer. In this, many of the healthcare organizations in the low
as well as middle economic countries are generally least prepare so as to manage this kind of
burden. In addition to this, the cancer patients can globally do not have access to timely quality
detection as well as treatment. And, in the countries where the healthcare organizations are quite
strong as well as the survival rates of the types of cancer are improving and it is all possible
because of the early detection and the quality treatment as well as care of ill people. it is
determined that there are very few cancers among teenage that is caused by the exposure to
environmental factors or the lifestyle factors. Its prevention efforts among the teenage must be
concentrated on the behaviours which will prevent the teenagers from developing the preventable
cancer. In United Kingdom, the government has developed many policies for the teenagers so
that they can effectively overcome or prevent the leading cause of cancer. One of the policies to
prevent cancer among teenage group is The NHS Cancer Services for Teenagers and Young
Adults. In this policy, it simply divides the care plan in two different age groups such as Age
between 16 to 18 and other group includes the age group between 19 to 24 (Simms and et. al.,
2019).