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I'm riding with a group of Doctors, Nurses, Radiographers, Patients and their Families to Raise Money for PLANETS. (Pancreas, Liver And NeuroEndocrine Tumours).

PLANETS Cancer Charity helps patients with pancreatic, liver, colorectal, gastric, oesophageal and neuroendocrine cancer by funding patient support groups, innovative treatments and research.

PLANETS Cancer Charity Key Achievements

• Established a network of patient support groups and conferences, for pancreatic, colorectal, oesophagogastric, pelvic and neuroendocrine cancer types across the Wessex region.

• Fundraised £1 million for the introduction of intra-operative radiotherapy (IORT) with the UK’s first mobile electron beam radiotherapy machine which is able to deliver radiotherapy to advanced cancers during surgery. This machine has already treated over 300 patients (Jun 2024) and is expected to treat another 2,000 during its lifetime. It has helped deliver ground breaking results – published in leading international medical journals – by drastically reducing recurrence rates for these aggressive cancers.

• Funded several PhD and MD researchers in pancreatic, neuroendocrine and colorectal tumours, to work with the clinician-scientists in Southampton’s world-leading cancer immunology research department.

• Helped to achieve European Neuroendocrine Cancer Centre of Excellence status (2016).

• Funded Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HiPeC) at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) for treating advanced colorectal and pelvic cancers.

• Funded a full-time dietitian specialising in rare cancers with serious effects on the digestive system – one of the first in the UK.

• Invested in a range of small projects supporting treatment and care for PLANETS cancer patients from ultrasound machines, 3D anatomical models for outpatients, radioisotope delivery equipment, DAB radios for radiotherapy bunkers, psychotherapy sessions for patients struggling with their cancer diagnosis and targeted fitness support for cancer patients among many other small but significant and important items to assist cancer patients on their journey.

PLANETS is dedicated to serving the needs of our regional population which extends from Lyme Regis to Bognor Regis and provides specialist cancer services to the 4 million people who live across Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, the Isle of Wight, the Channel Islands and West Sussex.

Its 200 miles in 24 hours- 60 in the UK, Ferry Overnight and then the rest in France.

I'm out training every weekend, hoping not to fall off and get injured like the last time I was training for it!

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