Fight for Life
embark on a new exciting project

The Fight for Life children's cancer charity is committed to raising substantial funds each year to maintain the Radiotherapy Unit treating children at the new University College Hospital in Marylebone Road, London.

This unit services all of Great Ormond Street's radiotherapy needs and is the primary paediatric radiotherapy unit in the south-east of England. Since FFL began in 1997 we have purchased our very own Radiotherapy Linear Accelerator machine, a PET/CT Scanner and we maintain a wonderful children's play area which is regularly updated with toys and equipment.

The play area and their wonderful play therapist help to make the unit and the treatment much more 'kid friendly' and much less scary.

'RAPID ARC' was our commitment for 2009, revolutionary new software for our existing linear accelerator, which allows the radiotherapy treatment to be targeted more accurately and effectively when cancers are being treated.

The most innovative parts of this software, when used to treat children,
is the much reduced time for delivery of treatment - from 25 minutes to 10 minutes - making it much more manageable for the children and also giving the ability to spare vulnerable areas like spine and eyes from the radiation treatment.

Thus minimalising the harmful effects of radiotherapy, which is so very important for their quality of life when surviving into adulthood.

The cost for 'RAPID ARC' was £600,000. this commitment, with your help has now been met, please know with your help we are saving children's lives.

Fight for Life announce our exciting and revolutionary new project for 2011-2012

TrueBeam™
Fight For Lfie's 2011 / 2012 Commitment to the UCLH Children's Radio Therapy Unit

Change has been the inspiration for TrueBeam™ a new, state-of-the-art radiotherapy and radiosurgery system optimized to destroy cancer. It has been built with intelligent engineering, innovative features and intuitive operation. This is based upon years of research, and provides a capability that allows doctors to tailor patients' treatments for their particular type of cancer.

This new machine will allow us to treat our children with cancer in the most accurate way. Imaging on this new unit is some of the best in the world. The engineering innovations mean we will be able to treat children very quickly with the smallest fields possible – this will allow us to reduce the dose to normal organs and tissue.

There is a fantastic inbuilt intercom system too, so it will be even easier for parents to talk and read stories to their children during Radiotherapy.

Please support Fight for Life in any way you can.

Our aim is to have the best and most up-to-date Radiotherapy Treatment Centre available for children in the UK, revolutionising the treatment of children's cancer.

However, we can only do this if we are able to receive charitable donations from people like you.

Please spare a few moments to explore our web site and help gain an insight into what Fight for Life is, what our aims and commitments are, and what we have managed to achieve so far.

We are staffed soley by volunteers and are supported by a network of fantastic friends and patrons.

Please help us to fight THE BIG FIGHT FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.

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