World-leading treatment and care
Together, we’re funding the life-saving work of The Royal Marsden for people with cancer, and their families, everywhere.
Caring for the whole person, not just their illness
Your support ensures experts at The Royal Marsden can deliver exceptional treatment and care, helping people to live well with, and beyond, cancer.
Your donations fund services that support patients and their families every step of the way
Helping patients prepare for treatment
The prehabilitation service delivers a range of therapies and medical support for patients to ensure they are physically and mentally ready to undergo cancer treatment such as surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Supporting patients to improve physical fitness and mental health before their treatment helps give them the best recovery possible, cope better with the side effects of treatment, spend less time in hospital, and have better quality of live during and after treatment.
Your donations fund specialists across occupational therapy, physiotherapy, diet and nutrition, as well as a specialist exercise instructor, who all play a vital role in the prehabilitation service provided at The Royal Marsden.
Supporting the wellbeing of patients and their families
The Royal Marsden helps patients to live well with cancer by providing services such as the Adult Psychological Support Service and complementary therapies. Counselling and mental health support for patients and their families helps them to cope with living with cancer and life after treatment.
Therapies such as scar tissue massage, aromatherapy and acupuncture can help patients manage the symptoms and side effects of cancer treatment, including pain management, without the need for further medication.
Earlier access to specialist support and care
The Triggers service, pioneered at The Royal Marsden, uses a unique list of referral triggers to identify patients who would benefit from earlier support from our palliative care team. It provides those patients with a personalised care plan focused on what is most important to them, including effective pain management and better quality of life. The findings are being shared with hospitals across the UK to help patients everywhere access palliative care earlier if they need it.
“The care I receive at the hospital is outstanding, and the research undertaken to continue developing new treatments is at the forefront of medical science and developments globally.”
State-of-the-art equipment to deliver the best care possible
Thanks to your support, patients at The Royal Marsden benefit from the very latest technology, equipment and facilities. The equipment we fund is driving earlier diagnosis, new surgical procedures, and more personalised treatments, which are then adopted across the UK and around the world.
Using robotics to reach previously inoperable tumours
Surgical robots such as the da Vinci Xi give surgeons more precision and control than ever before. The accuracy of the robots means surgeons can operate on tumours that would have previously been hard to reach or considered inoperable. It enables surgeons to use minimally invasive techniques that, for patients, may mean less pain, a much quicker recovery and fewer long-term side effects.
Precision radiotherapy that adapts to a patient's body in real-time
The Accuray Radixact linear accelerator (Linac) is a state-of-the-art radiotherapy machine which provides clinicians with high-quality images to ensure the patient is positioned correctly and the tumour is being targeted as precisely as possible. The Royal Marsden is now the first hospital in the world to combine online adaptive radiotherapy (oART) software with the Accuray Radixact Linac. The oART software means clinicians can adapt radiotherapy doses in the moment, based on changes in the body such as weight fluctuations or how full the bladder is. This is a major step forward in delivering more personalised cancer care which will hopefully mean fewer treatment sessions, scans and side effects for patients in the future.
Training the next generation of cancer experts
With your donations we are funding training programmes for cancer specialists who go on to support people affected by cancer everywhere.With your support we funded the UK’s first cross-speciality Robotic Surgery Fellowship Programme at The Royal Marsden. Launched in 2017, the programme trained surgeons to use da Vinci Xi surgical robots. Along with greater accuracy during operations, the robots allow surgeons to operate on different areas of the body at once, which is often needed when dealing with advanced cancers. The surgeons who completed the programme have gone on to work at hospitals across the UK and around the world, sharing their expertise and saving more lives.
Making breakthroughs happen
The work we support at The Royal Marsden is revolutionising the way cancer is diagnosed and treated across the UK and around the world.
Help us support the world-leading treatment and care at The Royal Marsden
Your donations mean experts at The Royal Marsden can deliver exceptional treatment and care, helping people to live well with, and beyond, cancer. Our work is only possible with your support.
