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Donate to help us beat cancer
Donate today to support life-saving research
Thanks to supporters like you, we've played a leading role in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer that has seen survival double in the last 40 years.
We've come so far, but we will never stop. 1 in 2 people will get cancer in their life-time*. That's why we need your extra support this Christmas to bring more hope to people, like Jennifer, affected by cancer.
Despite the progress we've made over the last 20 years, the picture for people affected by cancer is still unacceptable. For example, every year around 48,500 people in the UK are diagnosed with lung cancer. It's the most commonly diagnosed cancer and leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide.
Your donation will help to fund transformative research discoveries that are desperately needed to help us detect cancer sooner and create more treatments that can change lives.
So please, if you can, donate today and together we will beat cancer
What your donation can fund
If 100 people donate £50 each, we could fund one month of an exciting clinical trial that, if successful, could pave the way for significant improvements in survival for people with bile duct cancer.
If 20 people donate £150 each, we could fund a week of research into liquid biopsies, a type of blood test which has the potential to provide doctors with a less invasive way to diagnose lung cancer at an earlier stage and monitor it over time.
If 1,200 people donate £250, we could fund an international trial aiming to improve treatment for brain tumours in children for two years.
Supporters like you are helping to fund life-saving discoveries
Professor Robert Rintoul and Nitzan Rosenfeld, two of our scientists based at our Cambridge Centre, are using cutting-edge technologies to detect the presence of tumour DNA in the blood, known as liquid biopsy, a groundbreaking advance in detecting lung cancer earlier.
Professor Nitzan Rosenfeld explains "We aim to identify the crucial clues in the blood that are a sign of lung cancer so that we can catch cancer months or even years before it would normally be detected."
This is what your donations help us to achieve. Your extra support at Christmas can help create life-changing moments for people affected by cancer.
Your gift this Christmas could help more people like Jennifer
In 2012, Jennifer, a mother of one developed a pain in her side. An x-ray showed what was thought to be an abscess on her lung, which was diagnosed as cancer the following year.
Thankfully, we’ve been at the heart of progress for lung cancer for over 50 years. Jennifer's treatment included Cisplatin, a chemotherapy drug our scientists helped to develop. She has now been cancer free for over eight years.
Your donations can fund life-saving treatments like this, so families like Jennifer's can share more special moments together.
*Ahmad AS et al, British Journal of Cancer, 2015