You can fund vital research
Because of Charlotte, we urgently need your help to fund vital research into new treatments. Kinder treatments could have saved Charlotte’s life, who passed away aged just 32.
My daughter Charlotte was my best friend."
- Christine, Charlotte's Mum
Charlotte was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and was treated with chemotherapy which put her into remission for a short period of time. But it came back.
"We found that her brother was a good match as a stem cell donor, but after learning about the difficulties and risks it would mean for her, she was dissuaded from this route. The only option left was more chemotherapy.
Charlotte knew first-hand the impact that chemo can have on quality of life, and faced an impossible decision. She told us she’d had enough and was adamant she didn’t want more treatment. We were devastated but we did understand - she had been through so much already. Charlotte passed away aged 32."
Whilst chemotherapy can be successful in treating or controlling the disease for many, it is not an option for everyone. In addition, some forms of chemo can have harmful side effects that severely impact quality of life. Blood Cancer UK are striving to find safer and less toxic treatments, with fewer harsh side effects.
It’s crucial that people like Charlotte have safer and more effective treatment options, that they will choose to say ‘yes’ to. A donation from a kind person like you will really make a difference.
Research into less toxic treatments is crucial
Professor Michelle West from the University of Sussex is researching a less harmful way to treat blood cancers caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
If successful, this could enhance quality of life and increase survival rates for people with these type of cancers.
A donation from you will help fund vital research like this, so more people like Charlotte will choose to say 'yes'.
Charlotte held a gathering as a living funeral for friends and family – she called it her ’Charlotte Show’.
"Everyone wrote letters for Charlotte to read. The letters brought Charlotte so much joy when she read them afterwards, and I will always be grateful to them for that.
Blood Cancer UK believe that the day we beat blood cancer is in sight. The day when beautiful, bright and vivacious young women like my daughter Charlotte will never lose their lives to blood cancer."
Please donate today to fund vital blood cancer research.
