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Anyone can be a Curestarter. Not everyone will be. Will you?
Any lifesaving new way to prevent, diagnose, or treat cancer starts with discovery research. But there has been a huge drop in funding for these bright new ideas in recent years, despite the vital role they play in starting new cures. Worldwide Cancer Research is the only UK charity funding discovery research into any cancer, anywhere in the world.
What is a Curestarter?
For families like Adam's and families like yours.
When Adam lost his dad to pancreatic cancer, the whole family was heartbroken. His mum had to become two parents in one, the glue that held the family together.
Devastatingly, less than a decade later, Adam's world fell apart again when his mum passed away from bowel cancer.
Now Adam has his own little girl, and he wants nothing more than to see her grow up, build a life, follow her passions, and fall in love. All things his parents missed. That's why he chose to become a Curestarter - to power bold ideas for new cures and give more families, more time together.
Every breakthrough starts with a single action. What could yours lead to?
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Real life impactThe incredible story behind a lifesaving cancer drug
Curestarters funded crucial early research that helped launch a revolutionary drug. Olaparib has already been used to treat over 140,000 cancer patients worldwide and clinical trials are ongoing to see if it could save even more.
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Real life impactDrugging the 'undruggable' target in cancer
A research project you helped fund in 2013 allowed Dr Laura Soucek to develop a new treatment called omomyc, and prove that it was ready for clinical trials.
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Real life impactUsing lithium to prevent bowel cancer
Your support helped Professor Louis Vermeulen make a discovery that has led to the psychiatric drug lithium being tested in clinical trials to prevent bowel cancer.
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Real life impactFive key risk factors for endometrial cancer that you should know about
Thanks to your support Dr Tracy O’Mara and her team in Australia have made an important breakthrough in understanding risk factors for endometrial cancer.
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Join 90,000+ Curestarters around the world & help fund more research like this.
My team and I would like to thank supporters of Worldwide Cancer Research for stepping forward to do something about the problem of cancer rather than waiting for others to do so.
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