Lord Mayor’s Blog 15
The Lord Mayor of Birmingham is involved in a good deal of charity work in general and also selects particular charities for the year. There are four parts to the Lord Mayor’s own charities for 2009/10 and in the next couple of weeks I will be featuring all four of them in this blog.
The first is The Birmingham Fund for Pancreatic Cancer Research. The objective here is to establish a new registered charity that will run on beyond my Mayoralty - and indeed continues until the dread affliction of cancer of the pancreas is mastered.
While there has been steady progress with several forms of cancer, for pancreatic cancer the five-year survival rate in the UK following diagnosis forty years ago stood at just 3%. Today that rate is - well, just 3% and for many sufferers the survival time from diagnosis is very short and complete remission is extremely rare.
The Lord Mayor of Birmingham is involved in a good deal of charity work in general and also selects particular charities for the year. There are four parts to the Lord Mayor’s own charities for 2009/10 and in the next couple of weeks I will be featuring all four of them in this blog.
The first is The Birmingham Fund for Pancreatic Cancer Research. The objective here is to establish a new registered charity that will run on beyond my Mayoralty - and indeed continues until the dread affliction of cancer of the pancreas is mastered.
While there has been steady progress with several forms of cancer, for pancreatic cancer the five-year survival rate in the UK following diagnosis forty years ago stood at just 3%. Today that rate is - well, just 3% and for many sufferers the survival time from diagnosis is very short and complete remission is extremely rare.
Pancreatic cancer causes no symptoms early on and the median survival rate from diagnosis is 3 - 6 months. Affecting men more than women, pancreatic cancer has one of the highest fatality rates of all cancers.Yet the disease can be treatable on those occasions where the cancer is detected early enough, and the primary focus of the fund will be on research, conducted in Birmingham, into improved diagnostic methods.
You can now contribute to the Lord Mayor’s charities on-line through Justgiving.com at:
Donations of any size, large or small are most welcome and will be put to the best possible use.
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