How your money will help those with mesothelioma

The fund has supported several important projects including:

• £4000 to support the continuation of a voluntary national meso help line for one year
• Support for pathology research programme in Glasgow
• Research trial in Leicester - £20,000 over two years
• £4000 for reprint of patients information booklet on Mesothelioma
• £2800 for Mavis Robinson MBE, mesothelioma information project manager and one of the UK's few specialist mesothelioma nurses, to produce a comprehensive information booklet for sufferers and carers;
• £5000 towards setting up a Specialist Nurses Network, providing an information pack for nurses;
• £5000 has gone to the Medical Research Council for the 'Meso 1' chemotherapy trial (pilot study) together with funding for literature for the patients on the trial.

The fund has raised over £400,000 (January 2008), of which around three quarters has been spent helping to support those with mesothelioma, their carers, and on medical projects.

First mesothelioma UK patient and carer day
The June Hancock Fund is proud to have awarded a grant to Mesothelioma UK, to finance the very first Mesothelioma UK Patient and Carer Day. Taking place in Manchester, on 5 October 2006, the aims of the day are threefold:

To give mesothelioma patients and carers an opportunity to meet and share experiences with others affected by the disease To provide good quality up to date and impartial information on mesothelioma To give mesothelioma patients and carers a forum to raise issues and ask questions to the panel.

This will be an important step towards our aim of improving the help and information available for those affected by mesothelioma. The panel will be made up of professionals involved in many of the important associated issues including specialist nurses, claiming benefits, asbestos support groups, palliative care, surgery, nutrition, oncology, compensation and many others. For more information, please visit the Mesothelioma UK website on www.mesothelioma.uk.com

Mesothelioma UK has a help line for mesothelioma sufferers and carers. The telephone number is 0800 169 2409.

Further details are in the About the fund section

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