Cancer Research & Projects Funded by Sussex Cancer Fund

Albion in the community & brighter outlook

The Sussex Cancer Fund is delighted to support the Albion In The Community’s project Brighter Outlook. Taking part in physical activity during and after cancer treatment can play a huge part in enabling patients to take back control and support recovery. The Brighter Outlook project was launched in 2015 and offers cancer patients free, specialist support […]

Chemotherapy

What is Chemotherapy? Chemotherapy is a cancer treatment where medicine is used to kill cancer cells. There are many different types of chemotherapy medicine, but they all work in a similar way. They stop cancer cells reproducing, which prevents them from growing and spreading in the body. How does the Sussex Cancer Fund help Patients […]

research practitioner funded by the Sussex Cancer Fund

The Research Practitioner Role funded by the Sussex Cancer Fund enables the trust to take part in many clinical trials and research projects. This not only helps national and international cancer research projects but also gives, where appropriate, some cancer patients access to new clinical trials and treatment. We caught up with Rachel Edmunds, to […]

Laura Pritchard

The Sussex Cancer Fund has been supporting the Psychological Therapies Team for some years, so we asked Laura Pritchard, Macmillan Lead for Psychological Therapies about the services they provide and how the Sussex Cancer Fund Supports them. Support for the Macmillan Psychological Therapies Team from the Sussex Cancer Fund “We’d like to say a huge […]

Therapuetic massage for cancer patients funded by the sussex

Gabby Bignell is a massage therapist working with haematology and oncology patients in the Royal Sussex County Hospital through the charity Full Circle Fund Therapies and thanks to the generous support of the Sussex Cancer Fund. The Sussex Cancer fund is delighted to be providing Clinical Massage Therapy to Cancer patients at BSUH. The services run by the […]

Sussex Cancer Fund & The Community Based Acupuncture Service (CBAS)

  CBAS started in November 2017 as a partnership between Sussex Cancer Fund (SCF), Macmillan and the Community Based Acupuncture Service run by two medical acupuncturists, Dr Carolyn Rubens (President of the British Medical Acupuncture Society and GP) and Anna Joseph (Chemotherapy Sister, SCC). The Sussex Cancer Fund supplies the funding for the clinic and […]

SCF-funded research featured in Clinical Oncology journal

Here at the Sussex Cancer Fund we are involved in a number of clinical research projects, one of which has recently been featured as Editor’s choice in the Clinical Oncology journal. The research paper, titled “Challenges to Treating Older Glioblastoma Patients: the Influence of Clinical and Tumour Characteristics on Survival Outcomes”, can be viewed on […]