Offer someone with cancer the most precious present of all this Christmas
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This year, the Addenbrooke’s Big Christmas Appeal is helping to give cancer patients longer lives and more time with their loved ones. Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT) is aiming to raise £100,000, which can support patients with cancer by funding innovative equipment, therapies and treatments to lengthen and even save lives.
Heated chemotherapy, used for patients with advanced ovarian cancer, is just one example of a new treatment you can fund by donating to the Addenbrooke’s Big Christmas Appeal. Carefully controlled doses of chemotherapy at a precise temperature, administered directly into a patient’s abdomen during surgery, can extend their life to give them precious extra months and years with their loved ones.
Addenbrooke’s doesn’t yet have the equipment to provide this treatment, and patients with ovarian cancer often need to travel back and forth to London for their chemotherapy. By supporting the Christmas appeal, you’ll be contributing to the purchase of a new perfusion machine, tubing and other essential kit. This will ensure Addenbrooke’s is well equipped to deliver heated chemotherapy.
By donating to the Addenbrooke’s Big Christmas Appeal today, you’ll also be funding research that helps save lives across the UK and around the world. The better we can understand treatments like heated chemotherapy, the more we can build on that knowledge and develop life-saving and life-extending treatments.
To make your donation to the Addenbrooke’s Big Christmas Appeal and find out more, visit act4addenbrookes.org.uk/xmas2024
