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About
Breakthrough Breast Cancer |
Breakthrough Breast Cancer is the UK's leading breast cancer
charity and is committed to fighting the disease through
research and education.
In 1999,
Breakthrough established the UK’s first dedicated breast
cancer research centre. Research focuses on understanding
the causes of breast cancer, finding better ways to detect
the disease, identifying more effective and gentler
treatments, and understanding how to prevent breast cancer.
The Breakthrough Toby Robins Breast Cancer Research Centre
operates in partnership with the Institute of Cancer
Research and forms Europe’s biggest cancer complex as it is
situated next to the Royal Marsden – allowing researchers
and medical practitioners to share their knowledge and
expertise.
Campaigning and education work aims to raise the profile of
breast cancer, to fight for the best possible treatments and
services for everyone, and to increase awareness and
understanding of the issues surrounding the disease.
Breakthrough’s
vision
is a future free from the fear of breast cancer, and
ultimately Breakthrough is aiming to prevent breast cancer
from occurring in the first place. It is for this reason
Breakthrough launched the most comprehensive investigation
ever undertaken into the causes of breast cancer. The
Breakthrough Generations Study will include at least
100,000 women and will examine a wide range of potential
risk factors for the disease. Breakthrough needs to raise
£12 million to fund the first 10 years of this ambitious
study which aims to discover the causes of breast cancer and
so prevent it from occurring in future generations.
Please follow the links on the right to find out more about
the Generations Study and the
Survivor Stories of
breast cancer.
For more
information
Please visit
www.breakthrough.org.uk
or call the information line 08080 100 200
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 "My
wife Barbara found out about Breakthrough just
after she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Barbara did what she could but sadly she died in
October 1993. We owe it to the memory of those
we have lost to do everything we can to reduce,
indeed eliminate, the possibility of it
happening to anyone else. There must be hope…
too many brave women have died of breast cancer.
Everyone should support Breakthrough in its aim
to make a difference." Mick North,
Breakthrough Fundraiser
“It
is very important to me that I undertake this
challenge, succeed at it and, in doing so, do as
much as I can to help Breakthrough. Far too many
of my family and close friends, many of whom I
consider family, have battled this dreadful
disease.” Amelia Fawcett, Leader,
MakesWaves4Breakthrough
The
Generations Study
Survivor Stories
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