Cancer Research UK is entirely funded by the public, so we rely on people like you to help us continue What your sponsorship money can buy
Here are some examples of how the money you raise can help more people beat cancer:
- £61 could buy 500 petri dishes. Sterile dishes are used to grow cultures of cells for experiments.
- £120 could buy around 40 thermometers (range -10°C to 110°C). These are indispensible for many experiments that need to be performed at very precise temperatures.
- £300 could buy a water bath, a heatable tank of water which scientists use on a daily basis. Some reactions need to happen at particular temperatures. The thermostat on a bath can help maintain this from room temperature anywhere up to 95°C.
- £550 could cover around a month’s running expenses for a clinical trial investigating a new way of giving hormone therapy to improve the treatment of prostate cancer.
- £900 could pay for around one week’s supply of the drug pravastatin for the LungStar clinical trial. This trial aims to discover whether adding pravastatin to chemotherapy is beneficial for people with small cell lung cancer.
- £2,600 could buy 10 sophisticated microarrays. These help scientists scrutinise thousands of genes in a single experiment. Microarrays are a powerful piece of gene technology which allow researchers to compare how active different genes are in cancer cells and healthy cells.
- £4,000 could buy a -80°C freezer for long-term storage of biological samples.
Our achievements and progress
Cancer Research UK is leading the world in finding new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. We fund the work of more than 4,500 researchers, doctors and nurses throughout the UK.
Thanks to our work, more people are beating cancer than ever before.
Find out about the achievements and progress we’ve made over the last century.
Research in your area
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