About Youth Project

The Youth Project was born in 2011 within the Pediatric Oncology ward of the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori of Milan. Dedicated to adolescent patients (15-19 years) and young adults (up to 25 years, affected by pediatric neoplasms), it aims to create a new model of medical organization and specific culture, with the challenge of dealing not only with the disease, but with the life of these patients.

The Youth Project has two aspects:
• improve the quality of care of adolescent patients: improving and standardizing particular clinical aspects, such as access to care protocols, but also psychosocial support, fertility conservation measures, patient management after the conclusion of the therapy
• to improve the quality of life of patients within this particular age group: creating dedicated spaces (a multifunctional room, a study room, a music room, a gym) and above all dedicated projects, in a department initially created to care for children, so to make the treatment place a little “special” for sick adolescents and young adults.