WHAT HAPPENS TO THE FUNDS WE RAISE?

We have no overheads, no premises and no salaries, so all money raised goes towards fighting bowel cancer.  

RESULTS

£100,000 raised for a special CellSearch machine for the UCL Cancer Institute dedicated to the memory of Anthony Glantz.

Dr Tim Meyer, UCL Cancer Institute, said: “The CellSearch machine can detect individual circulating tumour cells detached from the main tumour and released into the blood stream, providing important information about the prognosis in individual patients.  Research is now underway to perform more sophisticated cancer cell analysis without the need for a biopsy.”

£40,000 raised for the Royal Free Hospital for the very latest in diagnostic equipment so they can detect bowel cancer cases as EARLY as possible.

Professor Owen Epstein, Consultant Gastroenterologist of The Royal Free Hospital says “Bottoms Up equipment is helping save lives on a daily basis, enabling the department to double the number of outpatients we can assess.   Speeding up the whole diagnostic process has had a considerable impact on patients referred to our "one stop bottom shop", especially those found to need follow on treatment."

Professor Epstein, is pioneering the hospital's "third generation" virtual colonoscopy programme – the first NHS hospital in the UK to study the potential of this new, minimally invasive CT method of colon imaging. Bottoms Up has donated special screens for this exciting new development.