Charity | Charity News – BHW Solicitors Partner with us to Support our Cancer Research at the Trust
Staff at the law firm BHW Solicitors are to raise money to support the cancer research at the HPB unit in Leicester.
BHW Solicitors, of Grove Park, Enderby, donated £1,000 to mark the beginning of the partnership with Leicester HPB (hepato -pancreato-biliary) Unit. Over the next year, partners and staff will be raising money by completing various challenges and activities. The firm also aims to help raise awareness of the work undertaken by the HPB unit, based at the Leicester General Hospital, which focuses on the liver and pancreatic cancers.
Professor Ashley Dennison, of the unit, said: “Organising studies and analysing samples to help us learn and understand the processes involved in the development and resistance of cancers is very expensive.”
“We are delighted that BHW has chosen to support the Leicester HB Unit. Its backing and future funding raising events will play an important part in enabling us to continue this vital work in the field of pancreatic and liver cancer research.”
The partnership launch coincided with the unit’s sixth annual bike ride. Patients, doctors, nurses, hospital staff, friends, and relatives all participated in the 100-mile challenge. Among the cyclists was BHW partner Jack Khurana. Starting out at Cafe Ventoux, in Tugby, and finishing in Hunstanton, Norfolk, the event raised more than £30,000 for the unit.
Jack, who is head of the dispute resolution department, said: “The cycle event was superbly organised and great fun. It was a very tough and a momentous achievement by all involved.”
“BHW are really pleased to announce this charity partnership. Having lost a number of family members myself to pancreatic and liver cancer, I realise the importance of the work being done in Leicester by the surgeons and scientists at the HPB unit. We look forward to raising lots of money for this worthwhile cause of the coming months.”
Pancreatic cancer affects up to 8,000 people each year in the UK. It is the fourth most common fatal cancer in the UK and has a worse survival rate than any other cancer. One person dies of pancreatic cancer every hour and only five percent of patients live for five years or more after diagnosis.
The most common form of cancer of the liver is the result of tumours that have spread from the bowl and this affects about 18,000 people each year. The Leicester HPB Unit regularly conducts research into the causes and treatments of these cancers.