How your money is spent
Cancer Research UK funds ground-breaking work into many aspects of cancer. Our researchers across the UK are investigating how best to prevent, diagnose and treat different forms of the disease. They are helping to improve the quality of life for people with cancer.
Cancer Research currently spend over £3 million each year in Southampton on some of the UK’s leading scientific and clinical research. Southampton is home to one of the UK’s experimental cancer medicine Centres. These special centres bring together scientists, doctors and National Health Services to underpin the development of new drugs and tailor treatments to individual patients. In partnership with the University of Southampton, the Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre brings together leading cancer scientists and doctors.
By sharing knowledge, resources and expertise, they are making great progress in many areas of cancer research. More people are surviving cancer now than ever before. Their understanding of the disease and how to treat it has increased dramatically in recent years, helping to save hundreds of thousands of lives which is why it is so important to continue fundraising in order to cure and beat cancer.
Did you know that 80p in every pound you raise goes directly towards our work
to beat cancer? Here are some examples of how your contribution – big or small –
can help:
Cancer Research UK funds ground-breaking work into many aspects of cancer. Our researchers across the UK are investigating how best to prevent, diagnose and treat different forms of the disease. They are helping to improve the quality of life for people with cancer.
Cancer Research currently spend over £3 million each year in Southampton on some of the UK’s leading scientific and clinical research. Southampton is home to one of the UK’s experimental cancer medicine Centres. These special centres bring together scientists, doctors and National Health Services to underpin the development of new drugs and tailor treatments to individual patients. In partnership with the University of Southampton, the Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre brings together leading cancer scientists and doctors.
By sharing knowledge, resources and expertise, they are making great progress in many areas of cancer research. More people are surviving cancer now than ever before. Their understanding of the disease and how to treat it has increased dramatically in recent years, helping to save hundreds of thousands of lives which is why it is so important to continue fundraising in order to cure and beat cancer.
Did you know that 80p in every pound you raise goes directly towards our work
to beat cancer? Here are some examples of how your contribution – big or small –
can help:
- £10 could buy 300 glass slides for studying cells and tumour samples in
detail under the microscope. - £30 could buy around 250 plastic Petri dishes. They're an essential resource
for thousands of scientists who are working hard to understand cancer. - £54 could buy 22 thermometers (range -10°C to 110°C) – indispensable for
many experiments that need to be performed at very precise temperatures. - £94 could cover the cost for one woman to take part in a clinical trial
aiming to improve survival for post-menopausal women with early-stage breast
cancer. - £123 could fund one cancer information nurse for a day. Our experienced
cancer information nurses provide a confidential service for anyone with
concerns about cancer. - £260 could buy a sophisticated microarray; a powerful piece of technology,
helping scientists to scrutinise thousands of genes in a single experiment, and
identify which are switched on in cancer. - £677 could cover the cost of one person taking part in a clinical trial testing chemotherapy before and after surgery, and the antibody drug Vectibix, to improve survival for bowel cancer patients.
- £1,000 could cover around 22 days running expenses for an important lab
project into a type of children's cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. The study aims
to identify molecules that are involved in driving tumour growth, and this could
lead to improved treatments so that more children survive the disease in the
future.
