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Provincial-Level Organizations

Action Cancer Belfast
early detection services for the Northern Ireland community, counselling and support services for cancer patients and their families, research at local universities, cancer prevention, health promotion

Bradford Cancer Support Bradford
provides a range of services which are readily accessible and free of charge to all individuals; complements the care provided by others; listens and responds to the needs of our clients

Cancer Concern Scotland Kilmarnock
facilitates education and research into cancer and cancer treatment

Cancer Research Wales (CRW) Cardiff
raising funds for cancer research in Wales

Clatterbridge Cancer Research Trust Bebington
raises funds for both research and treatment working closely with Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology

Coping with Cancer in Leicestershire and Rutland Leicester
helps the people of Leicestershire and Rutland cope with the practical and emotional problems, which can arise following a cancer diagnosis

Dimbleby Cancer Care (DCC) Dartmouth
(formerly Richard Dimbleby Cancer Fund, RDCF)
supports research laboratories and a professorship at King's College London and a cancer care and information service at St Thomas' Hospital in London

Kingston Area Cancer Support Group (KACSG)
for people affected by cancer and their families and friends in the South West London and Surrey areas

North West Cancer Research Fund (NWCRF) Liverpool
provides grants to support fundamental research in the North West of England and North and Mid-Wales, into the causes of cancer and the mechanisms by which cancers arise and exert their effects

SCAN Cancer Information Network Edinburgh
web-based library of information about cancer and cancer services in South East Scotland

South East Cancer Help Centre (SECHC) Purley
provides individual and group support, complementary therapies and information

Ulster Cancer Foundation (UCF) Belfast
providing support services, researching new and better treatments for cancer, undertaking education and prevention programmes as well as campaigning and advocacy work

Wales Cancer Institute
central partnership of collaborative research groups to increase the quantity and quality of cancer research in Wales, translating work done in the laboratories and clinical trials into new cancer drugs and new treatments

Wales Cancer Trials Network (WCTN) Cardiff

Wessex Cancer Trust (WCT) Southampton

Yorkshire Cancer Research (YCR) Harrogate
promotes research in Yorkshire into the cause and cure of cancer


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British Association for Cancer Research (BACR) Sutton
promotes the advance of research in relation to all aspects of cancer, both laboratory and clinical; encourages the exchange of information

British Oncology Data Managers' Association (BODMA) Banbridge
promotes data management and trial co-ordination within oncology in UK

Bob Champion Cancer Trust London
funding of research projects

CancerBacup London
up-to-date cancer information, practical advice and support for cancer patients, their families and carers

Cancer Black Care (CBC) London
providing information, advice and support services for cancer patients and their families, which is sensitive to cultural and ethnic diversity

Cancer Campaigning Group (CCG) London
coalition of national cancer charities representing service-providers, research, advocacy and campaigning groups for cancer patients and their families

Cancer Counselling Trust London
provides in person and telephone counselling for cancer patients, their families, friends and care givers who seek counselling to help them through the difficult issues precipitated by a cancer diagnosis

Cancer Prevention Research Trust London
specialises in cancer prevention research

Cancer Research UK London
raises funds to support research; provides information

Chai Cancer Care London
Jewish community's cancer support organisation, provides an extensive range of services for cancer patients, their family and friends

Helen Rollason Heal Cancer Charity Chelmsford
offers therapeutic support and development to men, women and their supporters following a cancer diagnosis

Look Good Feel Better (LGFB) Esher
provides free make-up workshops through a network of over 40 hospitals right across the UK and in 18 countries worldwide

Macmillan Cancer Support London
provides practical, medical, emotional and financial support; pushes for better cancer care

Marie Curie Cancer Care London
with 10 hospices across the UK promotes quality of life for patients and provides much needed support for their carers; provides free, high quality nursing to give terminally ill people the choice of dying at home

National Cancer Alliance (NCA) Oxford
uses the collective knowledge and experience of cancer patients and health professionals to influence and inform the development and improvement of cancer services in the UK to achieve our vision of equality and high standards of care

National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) London
helps its members to develop common plans for cancer research and avoid unnecessary duplication of effort

National Cancer Research Network (NCRN) Leeds
provides the National Health Service (NHS) with the infrastructure to support cancer clinical trials in England

Penny Brohn Cancer Care (formerly Bristol Cancer Help Centre) Bristol
providing a unique combination of physical, emotional and spiritual support using complementary therapies and self-help techniques, including practical advice on nutrition

Positive Action on Cancer (PAC) Frome
free professional one-to-one counselling service for anyone affected by a cancer diagnosis

Rarer Cancers Forum (RCF) Canterbury
draws together people with rare and less common cancers, thereby giving them a bigger collective voice to exact better services, and enabling them to support one another; makes all health professionals aware of issues related to rarer cancers, such as the often slow diagnosis and the need for successful treatment and symptom control pathways to be shared

Tak Tent Cancer Support Glasgow
providing emotional support and information which includes counselling, complementary therapies and community-based self-help groups

Tenovus Cardiff
quality research, prevention/education, counselling and patient care

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