Guy’s
Cancer
Centre
Appeal
Help us reach our
£15 million target
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– but we
still need
your help
!
Funding excellence
Our Cancer Centre is looking amazing from the outside – but we still have a way
to go before we can open our doors to patients later this year.
Can you help us provide the finishing touches?
Here’s how your donations could make a difference:
• 1 donation of £25 could buy a basket for patients to keep their belongings in
• 20 donations of £50 could buy an adjustable treatment couch
• 80 donations of £100 could buy a scalp-cooling machine to reduce the
likelihood of hair loss during chemotherapy.
Find out how you can support Guy’s Cancer Centre Appeal at
www.supportgstt.org.uk/cancercentre
Star staff fundraiser!
Deborah Enting is a senior research fellow at Guy’s. She is investigating ways
in which the immune system can be taught to fight
prostate cancer. She is also running a clinical trial to
assess the potential effects of a common diabetic drug
on prostate cancer.
Deborah spent most of 2015 in trainers! She set
herself a target to run 1,500 miles (the equivalent of
more than a marathon every week!) and hopes to raise
£150,000, which would fully cover the costs of a year
of her research. You can sponsor her at:
www.justgiving.com/Deborah-Enting
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Heart to
heart
Staff at Guy’s and St Thomas’ now
have unlimited access to state-of-
the-art equipment that helps them
practise heart scans on a realistic
mannequin.
Other hospitals can run similar
training, but have to hire the
equipment. Thanks to our generous
supporters, Guy’s and St Thomas’ has
been able to buy a simulator to stay at
the hospital permanently.
‘It’s one of the things that makes
the actual care better and faster,’ says
John Simpson, Professor of Paediatric
and Fetal Cardiology. ‘We’re doing
our
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these procedures day in, day out.
Being able to purchase equipment
like this makes the difference so we
can go the extra mile for our patients.’
A grateful patient who received a life-saving heart transplant at St Thomas’
is helping to speed up diagnosis of future heart patients.
To say thank you for his treatment, Eric Scoones asked his consultant, Dr
Gerald Carr-White, and his clinical team to choose what they needed most. They
felt that extra portable heart monitors would help them improve the service to
patients. Patients can check for any heart anomalies in the comfort of their own
homes, helping with routine diagnoses and reducing waiting times by up to two
months.
Dr Carr-White says, ‘These machines have really benefited patients and we use
them every day. We’re so grateful for Eric’s generosity and know this will help in
speeding up the detection of potentially life-threatening conditions.’
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