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The Cancer Treatment and Research Trust (CTRT) was founded in 1985 to promote advanced medical and scientific research into the causes and treatment of cancer. Our research includes the management of rare cancer types not covered by other charities including Gestational Trophoblastic Disease, gynaecological, testicular, uveal melanoma, prostate, bladder, renal, stomach and kidney cancers.
We focus our research at two of the largest cancer hospitals in the country: Mount Vernon Cancer Centre and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Cancer Centre (Charing Cross & Hammersmith Hospitals), giving us access to a large population of patients combined with expert clinicians. We provide funding directly to researchers with a focus on understanding why and how cancers develop, finding better ways of monitoring and detecting cancers, and testing new treatments.
Through our research we are able to cure cancers that were previously not easily treatable, reduce the need for chemotherapy and offer treatments with less side effects, help develop a new generation of diagnostic tests and tools (biomarkers) to aid decision making, and help patients to get the right treatment at the right time.
