Here are a few facts and figures that might interest you:

Christies is one of the leading centres in the UK for clinical trials

Every year Christies has approximately:

• 11,000 new patients
• 15,000 in-patient stays
• 14,500 day case stays
• 139,500 out-patient attendances
• Approximately 300 in-patient beds are used, with an average stay of less than 6 days
• Christies is renowned for world class research both in the laboratories and with patients and provides education in aspects of cancer
• Christies, the charity, raised over £5.6 million in 2002/03
• One in three people will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime
• It is estimated that around a third of all cases are caused by smoking and a third by diet
• In 2000 more than 270,000 new cases of cancer were registered in the UK
• There are over 200 different types of cancer but the four main types are lung, breast, prostate and colorectal
Men aged 20-39 - testicular most common
children - leukemia most common
• 65% of cases affect over 65’s

Christies has many ideas and projects that need to be developed with our help:

• Short stay chemotherapy ward - to maximise this advance a short stay chemotherapy ward needs to be developed
• Digital gamma camera and CT scanner system. Nuclear medicine imaging is at cutting edge of cancer diagnosis, treatment and research
• Long term effects research. Researching ways to help patients avoid problems
• Development in radio-immunotherapy. A way of producing ground breaking results. “Targeted therapy” works by enabling more specific areas to be targeted
• New clinical trials research clinic. A research facility for over night clinical trials

For more information on Christies please visit their website.