Information and impact

You helped fund research that allowed scientists to grow mini tumour organoids in the lab from a patient’s own cancer cells to study the disease and personalise treatment.

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.

Our research helped to discover a pioneering new treatment called photodynamic therapy which can cure cancer if it's caught early enough. 

Your support helped Professor Mark Cragg discover how drugs could be used to target and destroy cancer cells and helped develop new blood cancer treatments.

Your support in 2005 has helped launch clinical trials testing a promising new treatment option for people with bowel cancer. 

How do we know that what we are doing works? We explore the average return on investment of our research funding. 

With your support Dr John Maher's impact on cancer research has led to the development of a brand new type of immunotherapy that is now in clinical trials. 

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.

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.