<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Hi All,</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">As you are aware Deb has had varying treatments in her fight against&nbsp;cancer.</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">A particularly stubborn tumor in her liver has resisted a 2nd course of chemo and is inoperable due to it's proximity to 2 major blood vessels running to the heart.</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Things appeared grim, until we heard about a new radiotherapy treatment called "Cyberknife".&nbsp; This&nbsp;can target&nbsp;inoperable or difficult to reach tumours,&nbsp;due to&nbsp;it's pinpoint precision, so enabling it to give a concentrated dose to the site without damaging surrounding areas , as with conventional radiotherapy.</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">So we were delighted to find out that Barts Hospital&nbsp; were opening a Cyberknife Dept in&nbsp;July 2011, and that Deb would be recommended for treatment.</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Unfortuneately local NHS Primary Care Trusts rarely fund this. &nbsp;</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">We were lucky that BUPA funded it for her, but other patients aren't so lucky that don't have private health.</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">It's these people we would like to help&nbsp;, who will otherwise go untreated.</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">I am running the London Marathon next year to raise funds for this.</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Most of you know what happened last time!</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</span></span></em></strong></em><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Many thanks in advance.</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Regards</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Andy, Lush, Fuzz or whatever else you know me as!</span></span></em></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></em></strong></em></p>