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In response to the Cancer Campaigning Group’s (CCG) report released today, ‘Getting it right for people with cancer’, on the government’s Cancer Reform Strategy, Cancerbackup issues the following:

“The CCG is right to want to hold the government to account,” says Joanne Rule, Cancerbackup’s chief executive. “We are concerned that there are quick steps towards effective commissioning and that PCT’s work with and take advice from Cancer Networks.” She added: “We particularly look forward to implementation of proposals to improve patient information.”

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1. Cancerbackup is the only national charity that specialises in providing information on all types of cancer.
2. All Cancerbackup services are free to cancer patients, their relatives and friends.
3. Cancerbackup Freephone Information Service: 0808 800 1234 (Mon-Fri, 9am-8pm).  Cancerbackup Centres can be found in St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, the London Clinic, The Christie Hospital, Ipswich Hospital, Nottingham City Hospital, Coventry’s University Hospital and Jersey. The charity’s website can be found at www.cancerbackup.org.uk
4. Cancerbackup, as a charity, receives 54% of its funding from individuals, 11% from charitable trusts, 5% from grants, 14% from companies, 2% from investments and 14% from its trading company. Pharmaceutical companies contributed 9% of the total 2005/06 income.
5. In April 2006 Cancerbackup changed its name from CancerBACUP, so that the charity’s name better represents the service the charity provides: information, understanding and support to anyone affected by cancer.