How Gifts In Wills Help Cancer Research
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Some brain tumour cells can survive treatments like radiotherapy and chemotherapy by entering a sleep-like state. The cells then ‘wake up’ after the treatment, which allows the tumour to grow again.
In Edinburgh, Professor Steven Pollard is leading an international team of scientists who want to understand exactly how brain tumour cells switch between these two states.
This could help them design life-saving new therapies that either keep the cancer cells sleeping forever or force them into a waking state so they can be targeted by treatment.
This is only one of the projects you could contribute to by leaving a gift in your Will to Cancer Research UK.
Gifts in Wills breathe life into researchers’ work by funding over a third of their life-saving research. Legacies enable long-term research projects that allow scientists to achieve breakthroughs every day. Each breakthrough inspires the next, leading us to a world where everybody can lead longer, better lives, free from the fear of cancer.
As the world’s leading Cancer Research charity, Cancer Research UK are at the forefront of the global fight against cancer, bringing together millions of people who share their determination to beat it.
In the past 40 years, cancer survival has doubled in part thanks to Cancer Research UK’s pioneering research, funded by the generosity of their supporters. Cancer Research UK wants to accelerate progress and see 3 in 4 people surviving their cancer by 2034. None of this will be possible without the help of their supporters.
1 in 2 people will get cancer in their lifetime*. All of us can support the research that will beat it.
Pledge to leave a gift in your Will to Cancer Research UK today by contacting Paris Steele on 01620 892138 or by email on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
*Ahmad AS et al, British Journal of Cancer, 2015