Experimental Manchester cancer medicine centre receives funding boost

An experimental cancer treatment initiative is to get a funding boost of £3m to trial new therapies and drugs.

Manchester Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, which is a collaboration between The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Manchester and Cancer Research UK, works with local NHS facilities to provide patients with access to state-of-the-art treatments and has pioneered work in blood testing.

The centre is now planning clinical trials for patients with rare cancers.

Professor Caroline Dive, joint lead of the centre, said she was “delighted” as the money will “benefit people in the North West and beyond.”

The funding, part of a wider £47.5m investment into the ECMC network across the UK, has been provided as part of a partnership between the National Institute for Health and Care Research and Cancer Research UK.

Professor Dive said thousands of patients had been provided with “access to life-saving drugs and therapies through the Manchester ECMC” and the clinical trials they will run were “crucial” to new and improved treatments becoming adopted as standard by the NHS.

Professor Lucy Chappell, chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Research, said the wider ECMC network brought together “top scientists and clinicians to tackle some of the biggest scientific challenges” and enabled more people to join trials that might help them.

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