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This Giving Group is in support of: Lung cancer: a clinical trial to improve treatment

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What’s this project about?

Each year, around 1.4 million people worldwide are diagnosed with lung cancer, and unfortunately survival rates are very poor. We urgently need to find more effective treatments to improve the outcome for people with this disease. Dr Corinne Faivre-Finn is leading a major international clinical trial that aims to find the best treatment for small cell lung cancer (SCLC).

What is the science behind this project?

People with SCLC often have a combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. But currently, they can receive this in different treatment schedules. For example, some will have both treatments at the same time, whereas others receive one after the other. Equally, some people have radiotherapy twice a day, while others have it only once a day. Unfortunately, it's not clear at the moment which is the most effective way to treat people with SCLC. This is where the clinical trial comes in.

The CONVERT trial, as it is called, aims to discover the most effective chemotherapy and radiotherapy schedule for people with SCLC. The researchers will investigate the best total dose of radiation to give, and whether radiotherapy once or twice a day provides the greater benefits.

Looking to the future

The trial started in early 2008 and the team aims to recruit more than 500 people with SCLC over the next four years.

The researchers hope the trial will show which treatment schedule is the best at prolonging life and minimising side effects for patients. The one that provides the greater benefits may be adopted as the new ‘gold standard’ treatment for SCLC in the future - improving the outlook and quality of life for people with this common form of cancer.

For more information about lung cancer you can visit our CancerHelp UK website lung cancer pages. You can find out more about this trial on our CancerHelp UK clinical trials database.

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The difference you can make

Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world and there is an urgent need to find more effective treatments. Dr Faivre-Finn’s trial will help beat lung cancer in the future.

Please help us raise £71,000 to help fund one year of Dr. Faivre-Finn’s vital 4 year trial.

Project update

Dr Faivre-Finn The trial has now recruited 21 patients at twelve different sites across the UK and Belgium. Over 90 other sites have expressed an interest in taking part too.

You can read more about the CONVERT trial here.

Donate now and you can help improve the outlook and quality of life for people with small cell lung cancer.

Total project donations so far: £12,702.44

£71,000.00

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Why Support NW1 does the Circle Line. On foot.?

Interns at Cancer Research UK in NW1 (Cambridge Terrace and Albany House) are taking on the interns in WC2 (Lincoln's Inn Fields and Princes House) to undertake an overground walk of the Circle Line! http://www.adcq.co.uk/gmaps/circle.html That's 15 miles and 6-7 hours of walking all in aid of raising money towards this project to help beat cancer. We will start at Bank station by the memorial statue to Henry James Greathead before heading down to Monument for the first stop. One of the pioneers of the London Underground, Greathead died of stomach cancer in 1896 but his engineering work lived on to help create what we have today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Greathead NW1 shall be walking westward (as our offices are further west than Holborn) and the others will go the other way) We will also be dressing up - code yet to be decided - and meeting the other team half way round for lunch before racing to the finish for victory drinks! Finally, we are hoping to keep supporters updated with a live Twitter feed on the day and uploading pictures of the stations as we go round, so you can follow the progress of the teams as we complete this task on the day.

We have raised £735

(including £131 of Gift aid )

£1,500

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Our donations are in support of the Lung cancer: a clinical trial to improve treatment project which has received £12,702 in donations towards its target of £71,000.