Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
- Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation is a British medical research charity dedicated to the prevention and cure of lung cancer. The Foundation funds research into the early diagnosis of lung cancer and provides support to lung cancer patients and their families. It helps people to quit smoking and provides anti-smoking education for children and young people. It also lobbies government to take action against smoking, and many people have seen it as being instrumental in outlawing smoking in virtually all enclosed public places across Britain by the summer of 2007.
The organisation was originally set up in 1990 as The Lung Cancer Fund by Professor Ray Donnelly, a thoracic surgeon in Liverpool, and, in recognition of the major contribution Roy Castle made to publicising the charity and raising funds to build a dedicated lung cancer research centre, it was renamed The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation in 1995, one year after his death. The centre was opened by Sir Cliff Richard in 1998.
A history of the Foundation has been written by the founder, Professor Ray Donnelly. Published by Bluecoat Press (2006), it is entitled Cinderella Cancer.
External links
* [http://www.roycastle.org/ Official website]
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