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What is a Curestarter? Somebody who shares our belief that no life should be cut short by cancer.

Combining empathy with action, they help bring forward the breakthroughs of tomorrow. Anyone can be a Curestarter. Not everyone will be. Will you?

Become a Curestarter today.

How you can help

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Give the gift of time this Christmas

Every donation brings us closer to a day when no life is cut short by cancer. You can fuel the breakthroughs we urgently need to bring hope to those affected by cancer. 

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Sign up for one of our events

Challenge yourself and we will challenge cancer

However you participate, you will be raising funds for vital research. Join Team Curestarter and one of our upcoming events and take another step towards a day when no life is cut short by cancer.

We have funded over £220m of research worldwide since 1979 and cancer survival rates have doubled in that time. 

But global funding for discovery research has declined in recent years and we risk losing the cancer cures of the future. Your support can turn the tide. 

Why is discovery research important?

  • 90,436
    Curestarters & counting have helped us fund...
  • 123
    projects in the last five years. But we have had to turn down…
  • 136
    other top ideas due to lack of funding. That's more than...
  • 50%
    of these potential new cancer cures lost.
  • 1530
    people chose to become a Curestarter last month. Join them so that one day…
  • 0
    lives will be cut short by cancer.

Organise your own event

Have fun and raise crucial funds

From the tried and tested to the unique and unexpected, organise your own fundraising event and support pioneering research. When it comes to starting new cures, every penny makes a difference.

Philanthropy and major donations

Help uncover lifesaving breakthroughs

Join our growing collective of philanthropists and major donors and help us start the cures of tomorrow, today.

Play our weekly lottery

A win for everyone from just £1

Every single time you play the Worldwide Cancer Research lottery, you could win up to £10,000. And every single research project you help fund takes us one step closer to a day when no life is cut short by cancer.

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Business and corporate partnerships

Become a company of Curestarters

From local businesses to multinationals, there are lots of ways that companies can support Worldwide Cancer Research. Show your employees and customers that you care by joining our united effort to start new cures.

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Your cancer questions, answered:

Why is cancer so hard to cure?

Why is cancer so hard to cure?

How long has cancer been around?

How long has cancer been around?

What causes cancer?

What causes cancer?

New cancer cures made possible by you:

Laura Soucek And Team
Lung cancer
Drugging the 'undruggable'

An innovative but risky discovery research project that you helped fund in 2013 has allowed Dr Laura Soucek to develop a new cancer treatment and prove that it was ready for clinical trials. 

Ovarian cancer
The incredible story behind a lifesaving cancer drug

Curestarters funded crucial early research that helped launch a revolutionary drug, that has already been used to treat over 140,000 cancer patients worldwide Clinical trials are now ongoing to see if it could save even more. 

General cancer research
Making the most of your donations to start new cures

How do we know that what we are doing works? We explore the average return on investment of our research funding.