How your donation will help

What your donation could buy:

• £5 could pay for blood collection kits for one woman throughout her 5-year participation in our Diet and Lifestyle Study
• £10 buys the chemical compounds needed to carry out laboratory experiments for one day.
• £15 would buy around 450 glass slides for studying cells and tumour samples in detail under the microscope. Our scientists need to study breast cancer cells in intricate detail - this helps them understand how the disease develops and spreads and how they can stop this happening with new treatments.
• £20 could equip a one of our research scientists with a lab coat and a pair of safety goggles. These essential items help protect against harmful chemicals and prevent contamination of crucial experiments.
• £60 could buy around 500 plastic petri dishes which are an essential resource for scientists who are working hard to understand cancer.
• £150 could pay for three pairs of cryogenic gloves, worn when retrieving very cold cell and tissue samples from a minus 80ºC freezer or a liquid nitrogen storage tank. Our scientists need to be able to store these precious samples for long periods of time during their research projects.
• £260 could buy a sophisticated microarray (a powerful piece of gene technology) to help scientists scrutinise thousands of genes in a single experiment. This technology is being used to pinpoint new genes linked to breast cancer - crucial information that could help identify women who are most at risk of the disease in future.
• £350 is the cost of each individual chip for our GlycoStation which examines the tissue samples. This year our scientists will have data to analyse because of your generosity. Their findings will shape the next stage of research
• £1,600 could buy a microscope, an essential resource for our scientists
• £5,000 buys one set of questionnaires, kits and nurse training for the D&L Study
• £7,500 allows us to begin the development of a new blood test to detect sugars in blood proteins

Your support is vital for Against Breast Cancer to continue its innovative research to develop ways to improve detection and survival after diagnosis so women and men can look forward to a future free of breast cancer.