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THE MAGAZINE FROM BREAST CANCER CAMPAIGN
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Cover image: Herceptin drug binding to HER2 in a breast cancer cell (blue, lower left)
focus Chief Executive’s message B
reast Cancer Campaign will mark 2011 as the year in which the Breast Cancer Tissue Bank opened in four sites and the first samples of tumour tissue went out to a researcher to help bring their research to fruition. This is the culmination of work which started with the Breast Cancer Campaign Gap
Analysis, published in 2008, which identified a lack of good quality tissue as the biggest barrier to more effective research. There is a detailed article on page six.
‘A total of £1 million has been raised in 2011 and we hope this level of support will be involved over the life of the appeal’
Every penny of our funds comes from you, the public, either directly or through our corporate partners. Asda’s Ticked Pink campaign is the Founding Partner of the Tissue Bank. A total of £1 million has been awarded and we hope this level of support will be involved over the life of the appeal. We are also delighted to be working with Nina Barough and Walk the Walk which has made a grant of £1 million to the Tissue Bank. It is with regret that I will be leaving Campaign in the summer. Until now I have never stayed in any job for longer than six years – and that was only once! I became bored easily and looked for new challenges. The fact that I have been involved with Campaign since 1992 is because new challenges came along thick and fast; while the outlook for women with breast cancer improved hugely during this time, the treatments are mostly horrible and we know that there are still 12,000 women who die each year. The baton is now in the very able hands of my colleagues and a new Chief Executive. As those of you who read my blog will know, I am going to be Master of the Worshipful Company of Needlemakers, one of the Livery companies of the City of London. I am the first woman to hold this position and want to make a good job of it and to enjoy myself without feeling that I really need to be back at the office. These are very difficult times for charities and Breast Cancer Campaign deserves the full attention of its Chief Executive.
Pamela Goldberg Chief Executive
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