Regional Office Charity – Birmingham – Cure Leukaemia

Each year more than 30,000 people are diagnosed with blood cancer in the UK. Over the past decade, Cure Leukaemia has supported more than 4,000 patients across the West Midlands by funding the specialist nurses needed to treat patients on cutting edge clinical trials. These trials are part of the amazing work being undertaken at the Centre for Clinical Haematology at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital, which have genuine global impact and are integral to the fight against blood cancer.

“Despite recent advances the majority of adults, and many children, are still destined to die of blood cancer. Although progress is being made in the development of new drug and transplant therapies, currently many patients fail to benefit from these advances because of the absence of specialist nurses to deliver potentially lifesaving clinical trials. The efforts of everybody at Deloitte have indeed been inspiring and the money that has been raised is allowing us to increase our research nurse space so that we can drive forward access to new drug and transplant therapies for patients across our region. In the process we are opening a number of pivotal randomised clinical trials that will indeed be practice changing.”

Professor Charlie Craddock, Co-founder of Cure Leukaemia

Deloitte is extremely proud to be a supporter of Cure Leukaemia, and of the nurses and advances that the charity enables. Since June 2013, the firm has donated £45,000 which has funded the first year of one of the specialist nurses through a variety of initiatives.

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