Where your donation goes
Breast Cancer Campaign uses all wear it pink donations to fund innovative, world-class research throughout the UK to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure.
Breast Cancer Campaign only funds research into breast cancer and will support research at any centre of excellence in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. The charity has a particular interest in supporting innovative research and will fund the best breast cancer research in the UK and the Republic, providing that it is of the highest quality.
We currently support 112 research projects, worth over £14.5 million in 50 centres of excellence across the UK.
Thanks to your donations we are able to fund projects like Dr John Maher’s at Kings College London, who has developed a unique way of treating breast cancer by using the body’s own immune system.
The treatment would work by modifying a patient’s white blood cells and then reintroducing them back into the body, in a similar way to a blood transfusion, where they would be able to identify and kill breast cancer cells.
Dr Maher hopes to follow this study with a clinical trial in patients with incurable breast cancer, which could benefit thousands of women in the future.
We also fund projects like Dr Ingunn Holen’s at the University of Sheffield who is looking at existing treatments to see if they are more effective in different combinations.
During treatment a breast cancer patient may receive a combination of several different types of drugs, such as chemotherapy, to stop tumour growth. Patients with advanced cancer may also be given another treatment called a bisphosphonate to prevent bone loss.
Exciting new evidence has shown that if these two drugs are given in a particular order, breast cancer cells are almost completely eliminated. We eagerly await the results of a clinical trial later in the year to see how effective this treatment is in breast cancer patients.
Make a donation to wear it pink today.
Be breast aware
To be breast aware means becoming familiar with how your breasts look and feel. Understand how your breasts may change at different times during the month (when you’re having your period) and as you get older.
- Know what is normal for you
- Look and feel
- Know what changes to look for
- Report any changes without delay
- Attend breast screening if aged 50 or over
