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RELEASE Christie's put £multi-million improvements on show Come and see the exciting and revolutionary ways in which £22m of centenary appeal cash is helping The Christie fight cancer. Manchester's renowned cancer centre is to stage, without charge, a special open afternoon from 1pm to 4.30pm on Sunday, September 24, to show what cancer care will be like in the 2lst century. Staff and volunteer supporters plan visitor-friendly displays, demonstrations and guided tours showing how patients already benefit from the hugely successful £25m 'Christie's' appeal. People can visit the new surgical theatres and a just-opened one-stop 'Living with Cancer' Information Centre; see modern scanning techniques for diagnosing tumours and the Radiotherapy Department where those tumours are treated; view demonstrations of a special photo dynamic therapy lamp - devised by a Christie scientist - which treats skin cancer. They can also take general tours of the hospital and the world famous Paterson Institute cancer research labs. Displays by volunteers will include the Red Cross skin camouflage team, the 'cocktail crew' who make essential liquid foods more palatable and the Head Start scheme run, by the League of Jewish women, who mask hair loss in imaginative ways. Explained Lord Wade, of Chorlton, chairman of the £25m appeal: "This is the largest cancer centre in Europe now making over 120,000 patient treatments a year. So it takes an extraordinary out-of-hours effort by our dedicated staff and supporters to put on an event such as this. But we do want people to come and see the many ways patients are benefiting from their generosity in helping fund some of the most advanced research, patient facilities and treatments in the world." Ends Further info:
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