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Weʼve raised £650 to Support the Tim Bacon Foundation in their purchase of a sate of the art Proton Beam Radiotherapy unit in Manchester
- Funded on Friday, 2nd February 2018
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To support the Tim Bacon Foundation, Asahi UK and Meantime Brewing Company employees will cycle from the Meantime Brewery in Greenwich, London to the St Stefanus Brewery in Ghent, Belgium, in 2 days. This amounts to 90 miles per day!
Fifteen employees will take up the challenge, which will start at dawn on Thursday 12th October in Greenwich, returning to London on Saturday afternoon. Your support up to and throughout the endeavor will go a long way to helping them cross the line.
All the money raised goes to the Tim Bacon foundation .
The first initiative the foundation are supporting is the Proton Beam Therapy in Manchester, the first of two of it's kind in the UK, outlined below:
High energy proton beam therapy (PBT) is a type of radiotherapy which offers enhanced precision in the targeting of tumours over conventional X-ray (photon) radiotherapy. This is especially helpful when targeting cancer close to important structures in the brain, spinal cord, eye or inner ear. Children, teenagers and young adults are those who will benefit most from this type of treatment.
Currently there are no high-energy PBT facilities in the UK; therefore patients have to be referred overseas for treatment. To date 500 patients have benefitted from this service. Not only will more patients be eligible for treatment from 2018 it will improve the experience of those that would normally have to go abroad.
Although the new UK PBT programme will save children and their families going abroad for treatments, the majority of patients will still be uprooted from their homes to be treated in Manchester or London.
Each centre requires additional investment over and above what the NHS can provide; the cost of this is £20 million and will include medical equipment, MRI scanners, specialist dual energy CT scanners as well as space to house the scanners.
Among other enhancements there will be provision of specialist paediatric anaesthetic suites, courtyard gardens, play rooms with play specialists within them. Along with patient activities and artistic programmes all of this will ensure the best possible experience for patients during their treatment, therefore guaranteeing a first class service from day one that will be a positive legacy for future cancer treatments in the UK .
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Charlie P
Oct 25, 2017
Good effort! I'm glad you didn't do it in the attrire I saw you in 4 days before.
£10.00
Sarah Dawson
Oct 13, 2017
Well done hunky Hoody
£20.00
Edmund Dodds
Oct 12, 2017
Keep going George. Hope you didn't forget the Lurpak! Well done Ed, Dad & Henry.
£50.00
Katie James
Oct 12, 2017
Hope youve got some padded shorts hun - good luck xoxo
£20.00
Sophie Graham
Oct 12, 2017
Go George!!! Good luck !!!
£20.00
Luke Clemens
Oct 12, 2017
Good luck, just stay in Mike's slip stream
£15.00
Emily Penn
Oct 11, 2017
Good luck and have fun!
£20.00
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