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Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK
The fund Dame Deborah James launched in the last weeks of her life; a restricted fund within Cancer Research UK, it has raised £21 million and backed 16 research projects.
Also called: Bowelbabe Fund
Overview
Dame Deborah James, the broadcaster known as Bowelbabe, launched the fund in May 2022 while in hospice care for bowel cancer. It is a restricted fund within Cancer Research UK. Its own site reports £21 million raised so far and 16 projects funded worth over £20.3 million, focused on early detection and personalised medicine, alongside work that continues her campaign to share information about bowel cancer and break down stigma around symptoms. It is one of the clearest recent examples of a single patient's public account becoming a durable research fund.
Location
London, GB
Type
consortium
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#492 · 6 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 6 from 3 linked objects) · ranking
- Early detection research
- Personalised medicine projects
- Bowel cancer awareness and stigma
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