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The Reason

46,000 daughters, mums, sisters and friend are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK.

35 women die of the disease every day. It’s simply not good enough that we should have to live in fear of a disease that we can conquer.

Future Dreams, in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, is here to do something about it.

Thank you for the breakthroughs you’ve already helped us to make. All money raised by Future Dreams goes directly to one of the world’s leading breast cancer research centres, run by Breakthrough Breast Cancer in London.

Professor Clare Isacke and her team at the Centre are looking for ways to prevent secondary breast cancer and improve treatments of this disease. A big challenge with secondary breast cancer is its resistance to treatments – something our scientists are working particularly hard to combat.

WHAT IS SECONDARY BREAST CANCER?

Secondary breast cancer occurs when cancer cells from an original tumour spread to another part of the body, then grow and multiply and form a new tumour. Though incurable, secondary breast cancer can often be controlled for long periods of time.

WHAT IS BREAKTHROUGH DOING ABOUT IT?

Professor Clare Isacke has found that a molecule called Endo180 encourages breast cancer cells to move. She is now looking to see if Endo180 can be used as a target for new treatments to prevent breast cancer from spreading, thus improving the chances of successful treatment.

Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s scientists have researched a potential method for predicting which patients may be at risk of their breast cancer returning and spreading. This information could help doctors give the most appropriate care and treatment to individual patients in the future.

Furthermore, they are investigating why breast cancer sometimes returns, even many years after treatment, and spreads to other parts of the body.

SAVING LIVES

Breakthrough Breast Cancer is a pioneering charity saving lives and changing futures, through research, campaigning and education – removing the fear of breast cancer for good.

The research conducted by Breakthrough Breast Cancer over the past 10 years has transformed our understanding of breast cancer. By continuing this pioneering research and by working closely with hospital doctors, Breakthrough Breast Cancer will ensure their life-saving developments benefit patients fast.

There is much more work to be done and many more breakthroughs to be made. We look forward to a future when breast cancer will no longer be a life threatening disease and, ultimately, where it can be eradicated. We believe passionately that this disease can be beaten.

Together we can make these future dreams a reality.

But please remember, we must fund further research and we still need your help.

Please keep fighting breast cancer with us. www.breakthrough.org.uk (Charity No. 1062636).

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£60

buys a pipette for measuring exact amounts of solutions.

£125

would buy the equipment and specialised gels needed to examine proteins during experiments.

£600

Scientists often want to study cells’ DNA, to do this they need to use a centrifuge – a crucial piece of equipment which scientists use on a daily basis in a wide range of different experiments.
A small, bench-top centrifuge costs around £2,500 and they play a central role in all our research work.

£2,500

buys enough specialist chemicals and essential equipment to fund a Breakthrough scientist’s work for a whole year.

£16,000

Future Dreams is a charity registered in England Wales No. 1123526

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