The Work of the Foundation

The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation is a UK-wide charity, wholly dedicated to defeating lung cancer.

Its work includes:

Lung Cancer Research

The research aims to identify the changes in cells that lead up to lung cancer, and study how genetic make-up, a broad range of lifestyle factors, and environmental exposures, interact and contribute to, or cause the disease.

The research projects will take at least ten years in total to complete and will be important for all forms of cancer as well as many other diseases.

This unique project is already providing valuable information about how lung cancer develops and why it is triggered in some individuals and not others. It offers realistic, long-term hope, which will transform the management of lung cancer in the community.

Patient Care

For those, who have never been touched by cancer, it’s hard to imagine what it must be like to be diagnosed with a disease that may leave you with only four months to live. The Roy Castle Foundation supports lung cancer sufferers and their families in the following ways:

Patient Support Groups: These provide a setting where lung cancer patients and/or their families can discuss the impact of the disease with others in similar circumstances. They can learn more about lung cancer issues and meet with lung cancer health professionals. We have 23 support groups spread across the UK.

Information booklets and leaflets: These are free of charge to all lung cancer patients and help them understand what is happening to them. Information on the Patient Network is provided on the Foundation website www.roycastle.org and a free telephone helpline is also available – 0800 358 7200.

Tobacco Awareness

The KATS Programme

Kids Against Tobacco Smoke aims to increase awareness amongst all school-age children, encouraging them to make personal decisions not to smoke. The programme includes: research into attitudes, perceptions of young people to smoking, provision of teacher training packs and this interactive website. The programme aims try to ensure that today’s children do not become the lung cancer patients of tomorrow.

Helping People Quit

Roy Castle Fag Ends is a stop smoking service which operates from the Foundation’s headquarters and is available for those wanting to quit. More information about quitting smoking is available on the Foundation’s website www.roycastle.org

The National Clean Air Award

The National Clean Air Award is the first UK-wide scheme that rewards employers who implement effective workplace no-smoking policies by giving them a prestigious, nationally recognised award. The Award also provides guidance to employers to help them get their no-smoking policy right.

The Award provides advice to help you get your policy right and guides you to the National Network of NHS Stop-Smoking Services, which will be pleased to assist any member of staff who wants to quit.

Sign on to our website - www.cleanairaward.org.uk - or email info@cleanairaward.org.uk to find out more. The site contains lots of downloadable information and resources.