What’s this project about?

Each year, more than 7,600 people in the UK are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Sadly, the disease is very difficult to treat and survival rates are poor.

Dr Crispin Hiley is a Research Fellow in Professor Nick Lemoine’s lab. The aim of his work is to manipulate viruses to specifically infect and destroy pancreatic cancer cells. His ultimate goal is to develop new treatments to improve the outlook for people with the disease.

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The difference you can make

Pancreatic cancer is the sixth most common cause of cancer death in the UK. The people behind this research are committed to finding new ways to tackle pancreatic cancer.

Please help us raise £20,000 to help fund the laboratory running costs for Dr Crispin Hiley’s pioneering project in Professor Lemoine’s lab for a year.

Increased focus

While we have made real strides in improving the outlook for many types of cancer, progress in pancreatic cancer has been limited and survival rates remain low. Cancer Research UK is committed to boosting research to find new ways of tackling this disease. This pioneering project has the potential to make a significant impact on survival rates for pancreatic cancer in the future.

For more information about pancreatic cancer you can visit the CancerHelp UK website pancreatic cancer pages.

Meet Margaret and Yasmin

Margaret lost her husband to pancreatic cancer last year and now finds that there are lots of new challenges in day-to-day life.

You can hear more about Margaret, her daughter Yasmin, and their life now, as they share some of their special memories in the video above.

Donate now and your support of this innovative research will help beat pancreatic cancer.

Why Support In Memory of Joan Mather?

Pancreatic cancer is extremely virulent, practically incurable and exceedingly difficult to treat. This makes it one of the worst and most frightening cancers to be diagnosed with. It is the eleventh most common cancer, but the sixth most common cause of death, with about 7,600 cases per annum in the UK, of which about two thirds are in the over seventies. My mother who is 87, started suffering with jaundice and sickness in April, and was diagnosed with a T1 (less than 2cm) pancreatic pulmonary cancer after x-Ray and CT scans at the end of April. Major surgery was considered, but is too risky for people over eighty. Two procedures in May and June to insert stents relieved the symptoms for a few months and gave us some quality time, but by July she was back in hospital with a blocked bowel. A bypass operation has had little effect, and things quickly went downhill after that. She died on the 25th August, just four months after the first symptoms and diagnosis. This exciting new research into treating pancreatic cancer with viruses may give new hope to future generations who may be unfortunate enough to suffer from this uncommon but fatal cancer. Please give generously.