WOW! Due to the phenomenon that swept across the social networking sites Cancer Research UK's #nomakeupselfie phenomenon raised an amazing sum of more than £8 million to fund life-changing research!
Here's what Cancer Research UK had to say to some of the questions put to them!
Where is the money going?
It’s going towards funding our clinical trials research – these are studies involving people, testing kinder and more effective treatments and tests for cancer. So far this will enable us to completely fund 10 clinical trials, some of which we were previously unable to fully fund or couldn't afford to fund at all. Nine of these are trials testing new treatments for cancer, and the other is collecting and analysing tumour samples from patients. Any remaining money will be put towards more of our research.
Which trials is it funding?
These trials will look at new treatments for sarcoma, acute myeloid leukaemia, neuroblastoma, liver, head and neck, breast, prostate, bladder and oesophageal cancers. The trials cover a range of treatment approaches including chemotherapy, hormone therapy and radiotherapy, as well as sample collection for a study looking at how a person’s genetic makeup affects their response to radiotherapy.
£8 million sounds like a lot of money for just 10 trials. Why do they cost so much?
Because these donations have been unexpected, we’re still working out the best way to spend all the money. So far we know that we can definitely support these 10 trials, but it’s likely that we will be able to support a lot more vital research from this money too. We can’t magic research projects out of the air overnight, but we’ll be doing our best to spend it in a way that will bring the most benefits to cancer patients.
Clinical trials run over many years and can involve hundreds of patients. The costs include paying to run the trial and collect data from patients, as well as analysing it to see if the new treatment works. The costs per year can range from around £30,000 per year to £100,000 depending on the particular study and the longer a trial runs, the higher the costs. The money raised from the selfies will support these 10 trials over their entire duration. The shortest of the trials is two years while the longest is 10, and in total it all adds up to more than 50 years of research time.
Last month was also an amazing month for Cancer Research UK because last week marked the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Epstein-Barr virus and it's links to cancer. Their researchers revealed that a vaccine against EBV has the potential to prevent an additional 200,000 new cancer cases worldwide each year. Cancer Research UK launched a new clinical trial to test a vaccine that could be used to treat some forms of cancer caused by EBV.
Kubo Recruitment continues to support the amazing work that Cancer Research UK is doing because everyone of us has been effected by cancer in someway, whether it's directly or through friends or relatives!
£8 million sounds like a lot of money for just 10 trials. Why do they cost so much?
Because these donations have been unexpected, we’re still working out the best way to spend all the money. So far we know that we can definitely support these 10 trials, but it’s likely that we will be able to support a lot more vital research from this money too. We can’t magic research projects out of the air overnight, but we’ll be doing our best to spend it in a way that will bring the most benefits to cancer patients.
Clinical trials run over many years and can involve hundreds of patients. The costs include paying to run the trial and collect data from patients, as well as analysing it to see if the new treatment works. The costs per year can range from around £30,000 per year to £100,000 depending on the particular study and the longer a trial runs, the higher the costs. The money raised from the selfies will support these 10 trials over their entire duration. The shortest of the trials is two years while the longest is 10, and in total it all adds up to more than 50 years of research time.
Last month was also an amazing month for Cancer Research UK because last week marked the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Epstein-Barr virus and it's links to cancer. Their researchers revealed that a vaccine against EBV has the potential to prevent an additional 200,000 new cancer cases worldwide each year. Cancer Research UK launched a new clinical trial to test a vaccine that could be used to treat some forms of cancer caused by EBV.
Kubo Recruitment continues to support the amazing work that Cancer Research UK is doing because everyone of us has been effected by cancer in someway, whether it's directly or through friends or relatives!
