When you support Cancer Research UK, you become a vital part of our ground-breaking work, paving the way for a world where everybody lives longer, better lives, free from the fear of cancer.
In the last 50 years, our work has helped double cancer survival in the UK. Our research led to the development of the HPV vaccine, which is expected to prevent almost 90% of cervical cancers in the UK. We helped prove the link between tobacco and cancer, preventing millions of deaths worldwide.
Your donation will help power life-save research. Here’s what your money could do:
- £100 could fund a postdoctoral researcher for one day.
- £220 could fund our team of nine cancer nurses to carry out their amazing work with people affected by cancer for one hour.
- £400 could buy a gel electrophoresis machine, which can be used to measure the length of pieces of DNA, so scientists can find out more about our genome.
- £1,000 could pay for a whole-genome sequencing experiment to 'read' DNA so we can find out where cancer is 'editing' the words.
- £5,000 could fund a trial to test innovative radiotherapy techniques for treating rare bile duct cancer, for one month.
