COVENT GARDEN CANCER RESEARCH TRUST
- 67, RIDING HOUSE STREET
W1W 7EY LONDON
Phone: 020 76799366
Fax: 020 76799366
Short profile:
More people will survive cancer – Survival rates for all common cancers will increase, with more than two-thirds of newly-diagnosed patients living for at least five years. We will achieve this goal by: Discovering and developing new ways to screen for cancer, diagnose it and treat it Supporting the development of treatment strategies that improve survival Enhancing research into improving key cancer treatments, such as radiotherapy, surgery and drug combination therapies Promoting the best screening and treatment strategies to Government, commercial organisations and those responsible for cancer care Campaigning to turn research output into effective clinical practice quickly, in order to improve NHS cancer care and service delivery Establishing a UK-wide network of Cancer Research Centres to improve knowledge flow from laboratories to patients and vice versa Raising public awareness of cancer clinical trials and helping patients to find the trials most relevant to them.
Detailed description:
The Cancer Research Fund was established on the 4th of July, 1902, by doctors and surgeons concerned by the suffering caused by cancer. It was the UK's first specialist cancer research charity - before this there were no independent institutions in the UK wholly devoted to investigating the causes and treatment of cancer. In 1904 the Fund was renamed the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. The ICRF's first laboratories were set up on Victoria Embankment, in a building that is now the Institute of Electrical Engineers. By 1909, the staff had grown to four research scientists, six voluntary scientific workers and 14 laboratory technicians, prompting a move to larger space in Queen Square, Bloomsbury in 1912.
Further growth led to a move to Mill Hill in 1938, then to a building next door to the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln's Inn Fields. The new labs were opened by the Queen in 1963. As well as this flagship London Research Institute, the ICRF funded cancer researchers around the UK, working to understand the molecular nuts and bolts of cancer. In the 1920s, a group of doctors and scientists wanted to focus more heavily on clinical research rather than the fundamental lab research in progress at the ICRF.
They formed a new charity, the British Empire Cancer Campaign, later renamed The Cancer Research Campaign. Decades later, the two organisations would merge, forming Cancer Research UK in 2002. We now fund a wide range of cancer research across the whole of the UK, from our five institutes - in London, Cambridge, Manchester, Glasgow and Oxford - to departments and labs in universities and major hospitals. And we're currently developing Centres of Excellence in many major cities
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