Urgent 'buy back time' for cancer patients appeal launched

Jim Clover, consultant plastic surgeon, Cork University Hospital and SIVUH with Dr Dearbhaile Collins, consultant medical oncologist at CUH and UCC, and cancer researcher, who leads clinical trials in Cork, launching the Buy Back Time campaign.

An urgent public appeal to “buy back time” for cancer patients by sponsoring lifesaving research, dangerously stalled by Covid-19, has been made by oncologists, patients, and researchers today to mark World Cancer Research Day.

New treatments can be brought to clinical trial which could save lives now, if funding is found, consultants say.