Greenwich & District Local Committee
Cancer Research UK
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Welcome to the website of the Greenwich & District local committee of Cancer Research UK, raising funds to help fight cancer by organising local events and having fun at the same time
We are the fund raising committee for the whole of the Borough of Greenwich, running all sorts of events - you are sure to find something that appeals to you.

Join our mailing list to get details of all our events, we do not pass you details on to anyone else and send out our newsletter once every month or two.

Or maybe you would like to come along to our committee meetings, help out at one of our events, run your own event, or simply give us some money like to help us fund research into cancer.

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Gene test could identify early stage lung cancer patients who may benefit from extra chemo

Researchers in the US have developed a gene test that seems to be able to predict which early stage (stage I) non-small cell lung cancer patients have the poorest prognosis.

Cancer Research UK launches trial of new drug to treat acute childhood leukaemia

Cancer Research UK's Drug Development Office has opened the first trial of a new type of drug to treat children aged from six months to 18 years with acute leukaemia, who are no longer responding to treatment.

Oral HPV 'more common in men than women'

Research in the US has found that oral infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV) may be more common among men than women.

CRT spins out company to develop cancer surgery machine to melt tumours

Cancer Research Technology, the commercial arm of Cancer Research UK, has today launched Acublate Limited, a spin-out company which will develop a next-generation High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) surgery device to treat a range of solid tumour types.

Women with faulty BRCA genes more likely to survive ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer patients who carry BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations are significantly more likely to survive the disease than women without these faulty genes, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.


Cancer Research UK is a registered charity No. 1089464. Registered as a company limited by guarantee in England
& Wales No. 4326234. Registered address: Angel Building, 407 St John Street, London EC1V 4AD.

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