Hope Against Cancer, a local charity who focus on funding world-class cancer research, treatment and care right here in the East Midlands, have released their latest Impact Report covering the years 2018 – 2024. The report highlights the incredible achievements in local cancer research which is mainly funded by local people and businesses and aims for a future where more people survive cancer.
Hope Against Cancer was founded in 2003 to address the urgent need to bring cutting-edge cancer research and improved cancer treatments to our region.
Working in partnership with local universities and the UHL NHS Trust, the charity has helped to cement Leicester at the forefront of cancer research nationally and internationally.
The report shares news about the staff and scientific projects that Hope Against Cancer supports, updates readers about the world-renowned Hope Cancer Trials Centre at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, and explains how results and scientific skills originating in Leicester are shared to help global efforts to overcome cancer.
Hope Against Cancer originally opened a clinical trials facility at the Leicester Royal Infirmary in 2012, yet the needs of local people with cancer and the ambitions of the research staff to do more, meant that the facility needed to be expanded.
Through a fundraising drive, which started before the pandemic, but was quickly overtaken by the lockdown, the charity was nevertheless able to raise £1.3 million thanks to the continued generosity of local people, businesses and charitable foundations.
The existence of a local cancer trials centre, like The Hope Centre, provides local people with cancer access to innovative and complex treatments alongside their clinical care.
Research drives clinical quality and hospitals that engage in research have better outcomes for their patients. Hope Against Cancer has helped to drive this forward in Leicestershire and Rutland.
The charity’s Impact Report showcases how funding from local people, businesses, communities and trusts is spent to enhance the cancer treatment and care available in our area and to help change lives.
To read the report, please visit www.hopeagainstcancer.org.uk/newsletters-publications or email enquiries@hopeagainstcancer.org.uk to request a physical copy.
Hope Against Cancer would like to thank Noble Day Associates for sponsoring the printing of this report.
Written by Medilink Midlands Member Hope Against Charity.