Remember a Charity Week

With 1 in 2 of us now diagnosed with cancer in our lifetime, every gift in every Will can make a difference and start new cures.

For a better future for our loved ones, we must ensure new ideas for cures get their chance to save lives. Did you know that gifts in Wills from Curestarters like you currently start at least seven potential new cancer cures every year? 

But promising new ideas are still going unfunded, and you hold the power to change that. A gift in your Will could ignite new cures, uncovering the breakthroughs that we are all hoping for and giving people more time with their loved ones.

Curestarters like you are funding the most promising ideas around the world, opening up new avenues for research and bringing new cancer treatments closer to saving lives.

For example, in Italy, Professor Rescigno recently made an important discovery - that salmonella bacterium, a common cause of food poisoning, could be engineered to treat melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer. Since this breakthrough, Professor Rescigno has successfully used salmonella to prevent tumour growth in mice, paving the way to a brand new cancer treatment. Research like this simply wouldn't be possible without the support of gifts in Wills. 

When Pat began supporting Worldwide Cancer Research, little did she know that a few months later, her husband Alistair would be diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

"Thanks to a revolutionary transplant, we were given the gift of time and were able to do all of the things we wanted to do. Alistair was there for our sons' weddings, for grandchildren arriving, the celebration of big birthdays and our adopted dog, Spice, who was always looking for him. 

We would undoubtedly not have had those last wonderful twenty years together without the chance of the transplant. Without it, we were told that he would have been lucky to have another five. 

Research gives more families more time together, and my late husband was one of the lucky ones."