This month, the trust is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Having been at its helm for the past decade, Davies says he is positive about the charity's successes. "We worked really hard to achieve a policy change to give every young person access to a teenage cancer unit, and in 2005 we got there," he says. "Now it's about implementing this."
So far the trust has built 16 teenage cancer units, which are specialist, age-appropriate wards tailored to meet the unique emotional and physical needs of teenagers and young adults. In the next three years it hopes to reach its target of 28 units.
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