Why Cancer Research UK?
We were already supporting the local CRUK 10k fundraising events in Suffolk as part of Suffolk Land Rover Owners Club logistics support for charities, when James Paget Hospital removed an innocent lump from Derinda’s lymph node in her neck in
August 2009, which on dissection was found to be a secondary cancer. Neither a smoker nor drinker, this came out of the blue. Agonising weeks of scans revealed nothing until a multipoint biopsy located the primary on the back of her tongue.
In October she started a six week course of daily radiology and chemotherapy at the Colney Centre at Norfolk & Norwich Hospital.
If you get cancer, and statistically one in three reading this will, be assured that this is a truly first class centre of excellence in
Oncology.
We filled our house with family and friends over Christmas, and Derinda had recovered sufficiently to meet her long term objective of eating a Christmas dinner. Eight months on she was 90% recovered, and although two stone lighter, she was looking pretty well.
But despite the latest IMRT computer mapped 3-D Radiology and an arsenal of Chemotherapy drugs, this still remains a barbaric sledgehammer to treat a miniscule nut, albeit a very clever one.
Along the way we learnt a little about cancers and their treatments. We were invited to tour the Cambridge CRUK Centre and talked with scientists about a range of different research, including DNA and gene research into tracing hereditary links and potentially altering the genes associated with cancers. We were told of the new virtual partnerships working on a local level with universities, NHS Trusts, and cancer networks, bringing top graduates into research whilst establishing direct links with clinicians on the front line. On another occasion we talked with a chemist at the UEA who is using an injection of gold nanoparticles coated with drugs to target and kill cancer cells.
Cancers are virulent diseases, but there are some very clever people out there working on some amazing avenues of research, all because of CRUK.
CRUK is the worlds leading charity fighting cancer, and Europe’s leading funder of cancer research. With a budget of over
£333 million, supporting over 4,500 scientists, doctors and nurses in the UK, CRUK is almost entirely funded by public donations.
We have increased our support for this organisation, working closely with local managers and event teams.
The Waveney Walk was our own event for 2010, Derinda has become an active member of The Beccles Friends of CRUK, we enlisted 4x4 Response support for both the Bungay Black Dog Running Clubs Easter event and the CRUK Norwich 10k. We helped run the Cambridge 10k.
Supporting Cancer Research will make a difference; and together with CRUK we will beat cancer………..
August 2009, which on dissection was found to be a secondary cancer. Neither a smoker nor drinker, this came out of the blue. Agonising weeks of scans revealed nothing until a multipoint biopsy located the primary on the back of her tongue.
In October she started a six week course of daily radiology and chemotherapy at the Colney Centre at Norfolk & Norwich Hospital.
If you get cancer, and statistically one in three reading this will, be assured that this is a truly first class centre of excellence in
Oncology.
We filled our house with family and friends over Christmas, and Derinda had recovered sufficiently to meet her long term objective of eating a Christmas dinner. Eight months on she was 90% recovered, and although two stone lighter, she was looking pretty well.
But despite the latest IMRT computer mapped 3-D Radiology and an arsenal of Chemotherapy drugs, this still remains a barbaric sledgehammer to treat a miniscule nut, albeit a very clever one.
Along the way we learnt a little about cancers and their treatments. We were invited to tour the Cambridge CRUK Centre and talked with scientists about a range of different research, including DNA and gene research into tracing hereditary links and potentially altering the genes associated with cancers. We were told of the new virtual partnerships working on a local level with universities, NHS Trusts, and cancer networks, bringing top graduates into research whilst establishing direct links with clinicians on the front line. On another occasion we talked with a chemist at the UEA who is using an injection of gold nanoparticles coated with drugs to target and kill cancer cells.
Cancers are virulent diseases, but there are some very clever people out there working on some amazing avenues of research, all because of CRUK.
CRUK is the worlds leading charity fighting cancer, and Europe’s leading funder of cancer research. With a budget of over
£333 million, supporting over 4,500 scientists, doctors and nurses in the UK, CRUK is almost entirely funded by public donations.
We have increased our support for this organisation, working closely with local managers and event teams.
The Waveney Walk was our own event for 2010, Derinda has become an active member of The Beccles Friends of CRUK, we enlisted 4x4 Response support for both the Bungay Black Dog Running Clubs Easter event and the CRUK Norwich 10k. We helped run the Cambridge 10k.
Supporting Cancer Research will make a difference; and together with CRUK we will beat cancer………..
The Seventh Ladies' Tractor Run
Sunday 4th July, 2010, Harleston, Norfolk.
A 22 mile Ladies Tractor Run in aid of Breast Cancer Awareness, raising funds for Cancer Research UK.
http://www.fcsdesignworks.com/ltrr/
For the past 6 years ladies from around Great Britain have travelled to Norfolk to take part in an amazing fundraiser for Breast Cancer Awareness.
Everyone is invited to bring a picnic lunch to Gawdy Hall Meadow, Redenhall, where this picture was taken.
We had 96 participants on 92 tractors in 2009, this year there is likely to be over 100.
Derinda is driving Demelza, our 1976 David Brown 1212.
A 22 mile Ladies Tractor Run in aid of Breast Cancer Awareness, raising funds for Cancer Research UK.
http://www.fcsdesignworks.com/ltrr/
For the past 6 years ladies from around Great Britain have travelled to Norfolk to take part in an amazing fundraiser for Breast Cancer Awareness.
Everyone is invited to bring a picnic lunch to Gawdy Hall Meadow, Redenhall, where this picture was taken.
We had 96 participants on 92 tractors in 2009, this year there is likely to be over 100.
Derinda is driving Demelza, our 1976 David Brown 1212.
Beccles Friends of CRUK & Beales Fashion Show
Wednesday 30th November 2013 at Beccles Public Hall saw the first joint Fashion Show between Beales Department store and Beccles Friends of Cancer Research. The models for this glamorous event comprised the staff at Beales and the Committee of the Beccles Friends, and somewhere along the way I got recruited. ‘There will be lots of men’ I was assured by Derinda, but of course it was only me that actually turned up, together with three lads from Beales.
Every seat was taken, even the balcony, and the event raised £1,385.
It was actually quite fun, if a little nerve racking, but I think I will keep my day job for now.
Every seat was taken, even the balcony, and the event raised £1,385.
It was actually quite fun, if a little nerve racking, but I think I will keep my day job for now.