Roger Daltrey
NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 28: The Who's Roger Daltrey performs during the Who Cares Benefit For Teen Cancer America Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on February 28, 2013 in New York City.
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It's the quality of life that we should be worrying about – not just the cure ... And while you're going through it, especially for this age group, um, because they've got educational problems, they're right in the middle of their exams, you know, they're whole future's kind of been taken away from them – it's enormous pressures.
When you look at children's hospitals, to be honest, you have fabulous medicine here (in the U.S.), you have fabulous hospitals, and I've looked around quite a few now, and I've found it very difficult to find anything that is actually teenage-friendly ... And so it's our ambition and our mission, to, to make Teen Cancer America a gold standard – a stamp of approval.
When you look at children's hospitals, to be honest, you have fabulous medicine here (in the U.S.), you have fabulous hospitals, and I've looked around quite a few now, and I've found it very difficult to find anything that is actually teenage-friendly ... And so it's our ambition and our mission, to, to make Teen Cancer America a gold standard – a stamp of approval.More quotes »
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The Who' powerful show at Nassau Coliseum
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Teenage Cancer Trust chief leaves to work with similar US charity
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