Citizenship Blog - Cancer Research UK

Hello I’m Isabella. First of all I would like to thank you for taking some time to look at my blog. I want to tell people about Cancer Research UK so that we can help beat cancer.

Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is the world’s leading charity dedicated to beating cancer through research. They are fighting cancer on all fronts, finding new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat it. The charity doesn’t only carry out research – every year they provide life-changing information to anyone affected by cancer.

Ground breaking research has helped double cancer survival rates in the last 40 years and CRUK has been at the heart of the progress. Three quarters of children with cancer are now cured, compared with just a quarter in the 1960s. CRUK helped develop cisplatin, a drug that’s transformed survival rates of testicular cancer. More than 95% of men with the disease are now cured and their research in tamoxifen has helped thousands more women survive breast cancer. But there are still many other types of cancer with no cures…

This is a story about a little girl whose life was transformed by CRUK…
As Georgia approached her first birthday, she was just like any other child. But one night in August 2008 she suddenly felt very ill so Georgia’s mum took her daughter to the doctors to find out that Georgia needed to be rushed to hospital for many blood tests and an MRI scan. It was a long night before they received the news that they had dreaded; it was cancer and, worse, it had spread. Their lives were turned upside down.
Georgia went through a year of chemotherapy and radiotherapy and in June 2009 she completed her treatment, and in July her family were told that she was in remission. Thanks to Cancer Research UK, Georgia is now a happy, healthy, cheeky, normal child with nothing to show other than a few scars on her tummy.

Although Cancer Research has made great progress in some areas, they haven’t beaten the disease yet. Every 2 minutes someone is diagnosed with cancer, so they are determined to keep working until cures have been found for every single cancer. As CRUK do not receive any government funding for research, they would not be able to keep up their necessary work without gifts from supporters. This is why they desperately need your help.

Thank you so much again for reading my Blog. It would be great if you could leave me a comment and answer these questions. For further details visit: www.cancerresearchuk.org

1. Had you heard of CRUK before?
2. Do you now feel more informed about the charity?
3. Would you now donate to CRUK?

Sooner or later we will find a cure for cancer…
help us make it sooner