Local MP joins forces with campaigners highlighting research to improve the life chance of people with cancer.

Justin Madders, MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston, met up with colleagues and charity workers at an event in Westminster making the 20th anniversary of Cancer Research UK.

Mr Madders, formerly Shadow Minister for Health and Social Care, was told survival rates from cancer in the UK survival have doubled in the last 40 years and nowadays two in four people survive their cancer for at least 10 years.

Cancer Research UK’s ambition is to accelerate progress so that by 2034 so three in four people will survive their cancer for at least 10 years.

Mr Madders said: “Over the years the advances that have been made in the fight against the disease have been fantastic and now more people than ever are surviving their cancer, but there’s further to go.

“One in two of us will get cancer in our lifetime. We all have a part to play to help beat it, because if the worst happens we can help to save the lives of more people in Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency and across the UK.”

2022 marks 20 years since the charity was formed. However, its history goes back much further, to 1902, with the founding of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, meaning its work has been at the heart of some of the biggest developments in cancer, including some of the most used cancer drugs around the world today.

Shaun Walsh, Head of Public Affairs and Campaigning at Cancer Research UK, said: “Every day we see the benefits of work we’ve previously funded being realised, helping people live longer and healthier lives.

“Thanks to our supporters, partners, researchers and staff, we will continue to fund ground-breaking research to reveal more of cancer’s secrets.

“By putting discovery at the heart of everything we do, and working with people around the world, we can make huge strides in our understanding of cancer and how to beat it.”

Pictured - Ellesmere Port and Neston MP Justin Madders (right) joined up with Peter Dowd, MP for Bootle, at the Cancer Research UK 20^th year anniversary.