Our Research
We currently have four research fellows working on bowel cancer, colitis and crohns disease. The work is being carried out at St George's Hospital, London under the supervision and guidance of Professor Devinder Kumar, PhD FRCS. Our aim is to find better treatments and cures for these debilitating conditions through which we hope to see many lives changed for the better.
The current research projects include:
1. The role of dietary factors in inducing and maintaining remission in colitis and crohns disease.
2. Food hypersensitivity in colitis and crohns disease.
3. Investigate factors governing recurrence of bowel cancer
4. Raise money for equipment to deliver intraoperative radiotherapy for advanced bowel cancer.
"Showing them how it's done"
Professor Devinder Kumar and colleagues operating at St George's Hospital, London.
Where your money goes
This year we are asking for your financial support during an economic downturn, so you need to know where that money is going. Each project costs approximately £50,000. If we reach this target, which with your help is achievable, we will start the next project on the list. Any extra money raised will go towards the purchase of Inter-operative radiotherapy (IORT) equipment used to prevent the recurrence of bowel cancer and improve long term outcomes. The research will form part of several studies. The cost of the equipment is £750,000 so every last penny raised will help to achieve this goal. Our long term goal would be to open a specialist bowel unit to help people suffering with bowel disease. So as you can see, every penny will be well spent.
Mission Statement
Through research, we aim to make a positive difference to the lives of sufferers of Crohn's disease, Colitis and Bowel Cancers. By fundraising and other contributions, our charity will provide and support committed volunteers and research fellows who are caring, competent and committed to this rewarding work. Adhering to moral and ethical guidelines our work will be carried out with the honesty and integrity expected of the medical profession.
Statement on the use of animals in research
The Colorectal Research Fund, conducts research using a wide variety of alternative methods to the use of animals, www.frame.org.uk, including medical imaging, computer modelling, human volunteer studies, tissue culture, genetic and statistical studies. We do not test on animals.
Letter to the Editor,
Daily Telegraph, 24 May 2009
Curing cancer SIR – Professor Steve Jones (Comment, April 20) confirms, with admirable simplicity and the authority of an eminent geneticist, what clinicians, especially surgeons, have felt in their bones for years – that little of value to cancer patients is likely to emerge from the massive investment made in genetic research. At present, more than 90 per cent of actual cures of cancer are achieved by surgery while less than 1 per cent of research monies are allocated to surgical research. Academic departments of medicine and surgery are in a lamentable state of decline from lack of funding, both from the Government and the charitable sector. Those responsible for allocating these monies and others choosing a worthy cancer charity to support should ask themselves: what are the objectives, and how soon may patients feel the benefit? Genetics is a laudable science and worthy of support alongside other sciences. Funding for “cancer research” tends, however, to be hijacked by quangos, layers of NHS administration and even some charities for projects with little or no chance of achieving direct benefit for those suffering from cancer. Why not start to take “clinical research” much more s seriously and support projects that are closer to the needs of patients? Professor R.J. Heald FRCS
Pelican Cancer Foundation
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Brendan Moran FRCS
Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Norman S Williams FRCS
Barts and The London School of Medicine
M Rees FRCS
Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Gina Brown
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Devinder Kumar FRCS
St George’s Hospital, London
Sir Peter Michael
Chairman, Pelican Cancer Foundation
Professor Andrew Shorthouse FRCS
Northern General Hospital, Sheffield
Dr J M Fowler
Hampshire Clinic
