Help the Fight Against Blood Cancer by Winning a Match-worn & Signed Shirt
Every year in the UK, close to ten thousand people are diagnosed with leukaemia - an often fatal form of blood cancer. It is possible for a patient to make a full recovery from leukaemia if the illness is detected early on and they are given the correct course of treatment. Standard chemotherapy is used to help fight leukaemia, but this toxic treatment can result in horrific side effects for the patients.
That’s where Cure Leukaemia steps in. Founded by Professor Charlie Craddock CBE in 2002, the charity’s original intention was to make vital new treatments for leukaemia available to patients throughout the Birmingham region. Twenty-one years later, its scope has broadened to now also include the entirety of the UK.
Since 2020, Cure Leukaemia has funded the Trials Acceleration Programme (TAP), a network of specialist research nurses which costs more than £1 million per year to maintain and is made up of fifteen blood cancer centres located across the following cities: Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff, Nottingham, Birmingham, Oxford, Southampton, Surrey and London. This network enables the accelerated setup and delivery of potentially lifesaving blood cancer clinical trials, providing patients from a catchment area of over 30 million people with access to treatments not currently available through standard care.
MatchWornShirt is proud to be collaborating with Cure Leukaemia for the second year in a row. During Blood Cancer Awareness Month, we are generating money for the invaluable work currently being done by the charity with a series of exclusive live auctions. The products in these auctions are all match-worn & signed shirts or squad-signed shirts, with the exception of a single official match-ball which has been signed by multiple members of the Arsenal team.
In the fight against blood cancer, every contribution matters. Show your support for the cause by clicking on the link below and getting involved: Cure Leukaemia