Hi people!
Thanks a million for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.
As you know I am out the other side of cancer treatment, and, despite still feeling pretty wobbly and VERY OLD, I am all set to party with you!
I know you are all so generous that some of you may try to give me a pressie, but please DON'T! I have decided to make it a 'Pink Rose' party and hope you may be willing to contribute a small sum to the Appeal which is raising money for cancer research at Addenbrokkes Breast Unit. There are more details about it below.
Thank you so much, it means a lot to me and, I'm sure, to other women who are or may be affected by breast cancer.
Really looking forward to seeing you at the party
B xxxxx
The Pink Rose appeal Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust Registered Charity Number 1048868 The Pink Rose appeal raises money for vital research into breast cancer undertaken at the Cambridge Breast Cancer Research Unit at Addenbrooke’s, to help achieve progress in understanding and treating this terrible disease. In the last five years Pink Rose events held by people all over the region, have raised over £300,000. Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust would like to build on this success by aiming to raise £50,000 this year to support the 40,000 British women who are diagnosed with breast cancer annually. Research projects currently undertaken at the Cambridge Breast Cancer Research Unit will result in improvements into patient management within the next five years. Research at the Cambridge Breast Cancer Research Unit First the good news – more people than ever are surviving breast cancer thanks to early diagnosis and improved treatment. But there is of course much more we can do, and supporters’ donations will help us continue the momentum at the Cambridge Breast Cancer Research Unit, opened in July 2008. Every year, 40,000 women in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer, and around 20% of them will die. We are working to reduce this percentage still further by developing different and more selective types of treatment. The new Cambridge Breast Cancer Research Unit, attached to the Cambridge Breast Unit, provides a focus for the vast programme of clinical and translational research into breast cancer currently carried out, and enables a seamless link from the laboratory to clinical care. Our research uses molecular bar codes to improve the way we sort cancers into different groups that will then require different treatment. The bar codes are obtained by studying in the laboratory the genes that are present in breast cancer cells. These bar codes will enable us to develop new diagnostic tests and select the best treatment for each individual patient. The Research Unit has also allowed us to strengthen significantly the clinical research that was already being done in the Breast Unit. In particular we have been able to start four new projects of clinically-based translational research: 1. development and validation of novel imaging modalities for early diagnosis and for monitoring of patients while receiving treatment 2. isolation and characterisation of circulating tumour cells in patients with advanced breast cancer with the aim of developing more effective treatment response monitoring 3. establishment of an adult breast stem cell programme in Cambridge, which will lead to the development of novel treatment strategies that target the cells that start cancers 4. cancer drug development programme specifically focused on aggressive breast cancers These projects will result in improvements into patient management within the next five years. The funds from the Pink Rose Appeal will be used to support these and other innovative translational research programmes being run at the Research Unit and importantly to create new PhD fellowships for young clinicians that will be trained in Cambridge to become the breast cancer doctors of the future. Professor Carlos Caldas, Director, Cambridge Breast Cancer Research Unit
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