Thank you for visiting the Team Jackie page and helping us in this incredible fund raising effort, with £108k (incl. gift aid) already raised!
Sadly Jackie lost her fight against pancreatic cancer on 19th July. Jackie, with the help of so many wonderful friends and family, fought this dreadful disease with courage, dignity and determination. Qualities that those who knew her would recognise only too well.
We have chosen to support The Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund. Pancreatic cancer is known as the silent killer. By the time it is diagnosed it is usually too late. It has the worst survival rate of any common cancer – only 3 in every 100 people diagnosed will live for 5 years. This figure has not improved in 40 years. This cancer is so aggressive, by the time it’s diagnosed, 90% of people will be told that they are terminally ill and given 6-12 months to live. Pancreatic cancer is the UK’s 5th biggest cancer killer, yet receives less than 2% overall research funding. With a higher profile we hope that more attention and funding will be allocated to this disease. There has been an almost criminal lack of progress on pancreatic cancer and having seen this wonderful person suffer so, it is time to change this. With recent developments in genetics and immunotherapy, it feels at last that significant progress is within our grasp against this terrible disease.
Please donate generously.
