In July Graham Bell and Patrick Tawse cycled 138 miles from Aberdeen to Edinburgh to raise money for UCAN. The money you all helped raise (and thank you VERY MUCH for your tremendous generosity) is just short of £13,400 when the gift aid and cash donations are added.
There are five urological cancers: prostate, bladder, kidney, testicular and cancer of the penis. They mainly affect men, although women can suffer from kidney and bladder cancers. Urological cancers are more common than many people realise, and account for 1 in 3 of all cancers in men and 1 in 5 of all cancers in men and women.
Join us in Royal Deeside on Sunday 19th September, at the Pannanich Wells Hotel to be precise, for the 4th UCAN Fun Run.
"The Deeside Bruvvers" have organised another charity motorbike ride to raise money for UCAN. The ride of around 100 miles will take in the beautiful Deeside Valley, finishing up at the Loch Kinord Hotel and lasting approximately 3 hours.
Trophies will be presented by Mr Sam McClinton, the chairman of UCAN, 3:30PM at the finish. There will be a trophy for the rider with the closest course time and mileage, the oldest machine to complete the course and the rider raising the most sponsorship. Registration costs just £20 before the 12th September or £30 on the day.
The MoG-JoG was successfully completed by everyone, although not without some dramas along the way, the most important thing is everyone enjoyed themselves (despite the terrible weather) made new cycling friends and raised lots of money for the charity, in fact the total raised is just short of £34,000!!!
Thank you to everyone who took part and to all their sponsors.
Planning for next years event is underway and information will follow shortly.
Kate Synott attended a cheque presentation at Aberdeen St Machar Rotary Club on Thursday 3 June where she was presented with a cheque for £7,000 from Alan Pirie and Stuart McKay. The Rotary held a Race Night in the Northern Hotel on Friday 16 April. Thank you to all who attended and made the evening such a huge success.
'Tame virus' treatment offers hope of cancer treatment
From 'The Press and Journal', Wednesday 10th March 2010:
Scientists have made a breakthrough in the search for new treatments for the cancer which kills nearly 1,000 men in Scotland every year.
Patients were given a “tame virus” which destroyed prostate cancer cells but spared healthy tissue.
The results were welcomed last night by survivors and experts in the north-east, who said they could lead to a completely new way of treating a cancer which affects more men north of the border than any other.
Sam McClinton, consultant urologist at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and founder of the UCAN charity, said it was a “promising” step which could offer new hope to patients – particularly those whose cancer was detected too late to respond to other therapies.
From Behind The Headlines - Virus 'Kills Prostate Cancer', NHS Choices website, Wednesday 10th March 2010:
This is early research on a new treatment for prostate cancer. It is worth noting that:
The virus has already been tested, and shown some success, in treatment for other cancers. This means that the route to clinical use may be shorter for this treatment indication but it will not get around the fact that many more patients will need to be tested in rigorous trials to see if the treatment is better than current alternatives.
The treatment seemed to have very few side effects, which is a positive sign for a cancer treatment.
The researchers acknowledge that it is unfortunate that the reovirus did not seem to infect non-cancerous tissue after the injection as this means that it is unlikely that the virus could spread to other areas of the prostate cancer and kill these, in the same patient.
Overall, this report shows another type of cancer that may respond to the reovirus treatment. More studies in many more patients will be needed to decide if the new treatment has a place and where that place might be among existing treatments for prostate cancer.
John Beattie investigates the big increase of prostate cancer in Scotland.
Broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland,
8:45am Monday 8th March 2010
Duration:75 minutes
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Join us in Royal Deeside on Sunday 19th September, at the 
Kate Synott attended a cheque presentation at Aberdeen St Machar Rotary Club on Thursday 3 June where she was presented with a cheque for £7,000 from Alan Pirie and Stuart McKay. The Rotary held a Race Night in the Northern Hotel on Friday 16 April. Thank you to all who attended and made the evening such a huge success.