On 21st January 2008 Nicola Sturgeon, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, officially launched the opening of our Cancer Care Centre in Ward 44 at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

Come visit UCAN's Cancer Care Centre.

You'll find us at Ward 44 of the ARI.
Take the lift in the Phase 2 building to the 3rd Floor.

Opening hours:
Monday - Friday 9am 'till 5pm
1st Saturday of every month 2pm 'till 5pm

This iconic Centre provides:

• friendly, welcoming environment for patients and relatives

• opportunities for browsing educational, comprehensive material on comfortable chairs

• access to accredited websites via state of the art computers

• plasma screens to entertain and show informative DVDs commissioned by UCAN

• a chance to simply relax over a cup of coffee and share with others in a similar position

• private area for discussion with medical staff and specialist nurses.

This Centre is the first of its kind in Scotland and is being made possible through extremely generous donations: primary donor George Stevenson of GSS Developments and the Construction Industry in the North of Scotland, in partnership with NHS Grampian, the UCAN charity, other local business leaders, and UCAN's kind supporters. A HUGE thank you to all who made this possible!!

Download the press release of the Care Centre Opening by Nicola Sturgeon

This Care Centre is incredible news for UCAN patients and families; significantly empowering anyone affected by Urological Cancer. However, we stress that this is only the beginning! And with around 18,000 people dying every year in the UK from urological cancers, and with this figure continuing to rise, UCAN appreciates that much more needs to be done!

Consultant Urologiccal Surgeon and UCAN Chairman, Sam McClinton, is delighted with the Centre:

"We are confident this is going to make a real difference to local patients - so much so that the model for the centre is going to be utilised as the blueprint for similar kinds of facilities throughout the country".

Professor C Duncan Rice of the University of Aberdeen strongly believes that UCAN is "fast making Aberdeen an internationally important centre in the field of Urological Cancer."