{"id":39,"date":"2022-04-18T10:52:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T10:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talanstrust.org\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2022-11-15T20:32:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T20:32:35","slug":"funding-research-into-rms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/talanstrust.org\/funding-research-into-rms\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding research into RMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A diagnosis of Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a truly devastating one as there are currently no effective targeted treatments for the aggressive form of this disease (that Talan had).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Talan\u2019s Trust are determined to help change this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the first year following Talan\u2019s death in May 2017 the supporters of Talan\u2019s Trust raised over \u00a330,000. This money has been used (via the Chris Lucas Trust) to support the work of a full time RMS researcher, working at the Institute for Cancer Research (ICR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In February 2020, thanks to the incredible ongoing support for Talan\u2019s Trust, we have been able to make a further donation of \u00a320,000 in Talan\u2019s name to the ICR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Institute of Cancer Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In December 2018, we were delighted to visit the Institute of Cancer Research at the Royal Marsden Hospital and to meet the researchers working on RMS. We attended with Lynn and Lynn Lucas from the Chris Lucas Trust and were given an excellent presentation about current research into rhabdomyosarcoma. We then visited the research laboratory, we were also shown some of the work which the team are doing to find a cure for this particular type of sarcoma cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n