Equipment funded by Sussex Cancer Fund

What's on our wish list? - Leg Exerciser

Every day we receive requests from staff and patients about equipment that can either help with treatment or just make patients a little more comfortable. Sometimes they are suggestions for brand new equipment and sometimes the request is to replace something that has become worn, broken or just outdated. You can see our full wish […]

stay hydrated sussex cancer fund

We all know the importance of staying hydrated. Being hydrated helps control your heart rate and your blood pressure, keeps your body temperature steady, removes toxins and waste, carries nutrients and oxygen around your body and protects org ans, tissues, and joints. There are many elements while a patient is receiving treatment that can affect […]

bladder scanners

Sussex Cancer Fund recently purchased of 2 ultrasound bladder scanners for use at The Sussex Cancer Centre, 1 for Preston Park Radiotherapy Centre and 1 for The Royal Sussex County site. Bladder scanners are used in Radiotherapy departments to help establish the volume of fluid patients have in their bladder, for preparation purposes during treatment. […]

Preston Park Radiotherapy Centre would like to thank the Sussex Cancer Fund for enabling us to buy a crucial set of items for our patients – pyjamas!

The majority of patients we currently treat at PPRC have cancers located in the pelvis.  We now give each new patient a pair of pyjamas for them to bring in every day for treatment.  When it comes to their appointment time, they change into these pyjamas in individual changing cubicles, situated opposite the treatment rooms.  […]

Sussex Cancer Fund has purchased six ‘at home’ blood pressure monitoring machines for patients attending the new Metastatic thyroid clinic. Patients are being overed a new drug called lenvatanib which has shown great results in trial for offering prevention of disease progression for this group of thyroid cancer patients. However, this drug has its down […]