- Founder: Jean Ratcliff
- Professional advisors, specialists in interventional oncology.
- Prof William Lees FRCR FRCS FRANZ
- Professor of Medicine, University College London
- Dr Alice Gillams MRCP FRCR ABR
- Senior Lecturer, Medical Imaging, University College London
The Cancer Thermal Ablation Fund
This website will be of interest to certain cancer patients and those involved with their treatment as its aim is to bring greater awareness and knowledge of radiofrequency ablation. RF ablation is a relatively new cancer treatment working alongside conventional surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. It can make a huge difference but it is still not commonly known about or indeed readily available as part of the overall treatment options.
Jean Ratcliff, Founder of The Cancer Thermal Ablation Fund, was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2003 with three secondary tumours in the liver. RF ablation was vital in the overall programme to treat her cancer. Jean is now determined that as many people as possible benefit from this procedure and is fundraising to achieve these aims.
This treatment and methods used are now widely accepted around the world and have been approved by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). Despite this there is very little availability of the technique in the UK and only a small fraction of patients who could benefit can receive this treatment in spite of modest start up costs.
The fund has been set up to initially offer bursaries to doctors throughout the UK to train in this vital technique. Funds will also go towards the developing technology, ongoing research and improving the image guidance software to make the technique less demanding. This web-site is part of the awareness programme.
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