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 […]
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 […]
Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) is an aggressive blood cancer which has a poor prognosis and high relapse rate. There are around 3200 new cases of AML diagnosed in the UK every year and unfortunately, this figure is increasing, with a 30% increase from the 1990s. Of all leukaemias, this is the most aggressive with a […]
A new ‘Fast-Forward’ radiotherapy treatment that allows women with breast cancer to undergo radiotherapy treatment in just one week of treatment sessions compared to the traditional three weeks has now gone live. The new regime can be considered the new standard of care for a majority of breast cancer patients. The Sussex Cancer Fund […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A stimulating day at the PROMS (patient reported outcome measures) conference in Birmingham. Great discussion of how to improve our measurement of the outcomes which matter to patients and how to increase involvement of patients and the public in shaping research strategy. Both areas close to […]
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 […]
