Money raised by Cancer Research Jersey has been used to help fund the centre at Southampton Hospital which hopes to develop a radical way of curing cancer by ‘unlocking the power’ of patients’ immune systems.
So far just over £21 million has been raised for the centre based close to the hospital where between 85 and 90 per cent of Islanders with cancer are treated.
Graham Packham, professor of molecular oncology within medicine at the University of Southampton, said that the centre will play a vital part in reaching Cancer Research UK’s target of ensuring that 75 per cent of people diagnosed with cancer survive by 2034.
‘The centre will be the first dedicated immunology centre in the UK. If we can unlock the power of the patient’s immune system that would be a big step change,’ he said.
