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Guy’s Cancer Centre Appeal Help us reach our £15 million target Opens autumn 2 016 – but we still need your help ! Funding excellence Our Cancer Centre is looking amazing from the outside – but we still have a way to go before we can open our doors to patients later this year. Can you help us provide the finishing touches? Here’s how your donations could make a difference: • 1 donation of £25 could buy a basket for patients to keep their belongings in • 20 donations of £50 could buy an adjustable treatment couch • 80 donations of £100 could buy a scalp-cooling machine to reduce the likelihood of hair loss during chemotherapy. Find out how you can support Guy’s Cancer Centre Appeal at www.supportgstt.org.uk/cancercentre Star staff fundraiser! Deborah Enting is a senior research fellow at Guy’s. She is investigating ways in which the immune system can be taught to fight prostate cancer. She is also running a clinical trial to assess the potential effects of a common diabetic drug on prostate cancer. Deborah spent most of 2015 in trainers! She set herself a target to run 1,500 miles (the equivalent of more than a marathon every week!) and hopes to raise £150,000, which would fully cover the costs of a year of her research. You can sponsor her at: www.justgiving.com/Deborah-Enting 4 Heart to heart Staff at Guy’s and St Thomas’ now have unlimited access to state-of- the-art equipment that helps them practise heart scans on a realistic mannequin. Other hospitals can run similar training, but have to hire the equipment. Thanks to our generous supporters, Guy’s and St Thomas’ has been able to buy a simulator to stay at the hospital permanently. ‘It’s one of the things that makes the actual care better and faster,’ says John Simpson, Professor of Paediatric and Fetal Cardiology. ‘We’re doing our How y t has suppor made a ence differ these procedures day in, day out. Being able to purchase equipment like this makes the difference so we can go the extra mile for our patients.’ A grateful patient who received a life-saving heart transplant at St Thomas’ is helping to speed up diagnosis of future heart patients. To say thank you for his treatment, Eric Scoones asked his consultant, Dr Gerald Carr-White, and his clinical team to choose what they needed most. They felt that extra portable heart monitors would help them improve the service to patients. Patients can check for any heart anomalies in the comfort of their own homes, helping with routine diagnoses and reducing waiting times by up to two months. Dr Carr-White says, ‘These machines have really benefited patients and we use them every day. We’re so grateful for Eric’s generosity and know this will help in speeding up the detection of potentially life-threatening conditions.’ 5