Who We Support

to fund a project run by Professor Gary Cook who is investigating better ways to track how secondary tumours in the bone respond to treatments.

to fund their use of microsimulation to refine a risk-adapted screening process to identify the most effective methods of early breast cancer detection.

for their continuation of care packages split across Ipswich and West Suffolk.

for the rent of their office/packing room and the supply of comfort and care bags.

to buy prosthetic breasts for educational use and to fund the continuation of their “All About You” project.

£75,000 for three 3-year projects and one that is ongoing. This funding helped BCN look at options for when chemotherapy doesn’t work, observing at a cellular level. This research will provide hope where they may not usually be any.

A unanimous wish to donate a further £50,000 was made by the participants of the AFC India Cycle Ride in 2023.

for 4 different local initiatives which were all very productive and well within our target market.

for the rent on their office/packing room, Pink Packs, and the supply of comfort and care bags.

for an ongoing project to mimic breast cancer tissue in the
laboratory at a cost of £100k. PBC
have been operating since 1996 in Manchester and are running the only breast cancer prevention centre in the country.

for 210 boxes at Ipswich and West
Suffolk both radiotherapy and chemotherapy boxes.

3x projects of leading research projects were each awarded £25,000.

A further £50,000 was donated to BCN's Professor Judy Coulson's research project 'How Cancer Cells Divide'.

to Keeping Abreast, Norwich, a charity supporting those facing a mastectomy.

for the London hospital's lifestyle and dietary research project for women.

for chemotherapy boxes for patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy at West Suffolk Hospital.

£5,000 for a breast care nurse training fund for courses and further education at Ipswich and Colchester Hospital.

£600 for the re-printing of Nutrition Guide booklets at Ipswich and Colchester Hospital.

£6,000 for the funding of a part-time specialist breast cancer counsellor at Ipswich Hospital.

A further £750 for 5 specialist breast care nurses from Ipswich Hospital to attend the national ABS (Association of Breast Surgery) conference in London.

for a specialist breast care nurse at Colchester Hospital in breast micro pigmentation training (breast tattooing following mastectomy).

for the Blossom Appeal Colchester and Ipswich Foundation Trust.

for breast exercise classes, a scar tissue therapy service, breast cancer counselling, specialist national micro-pigmentation courses for breast care nurses (nipple tattooing post-mastectomy), and psycho-sexual counselling in Ipswich and Felixstowe.

for the Toby Robins Research Centre in London.

£20,000 donation was made to Professor Gary Cook's metastatic breast cancer research.

£20,000 donation was made to BCN's Progress Research Fund.

for further funding to Breast Cancer Now’s gene research (Project Leader: Dr Rachel Natrajan at BCN Research Centre, London).

for complimentary chemotherapy comfort boxes for women with primary and secondary breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy treatment at Ipswich Hospital and West Suffolk Hospital.

for a newly proposed 2022 breast care unit at Ipswich Hospital.

for breast cancer post-surgical exercise classes.

for the first two nutrition and weight loss courses run by senior nutritionist Debbie Taylor, following breast cancer treatment at Ipswich Hospital.

for interior refurbishment of the treatment room for counselling and alternative therapies at the John Le Vay cancer centre in Ipswich Hospital.