As polling day fast-approaches, Victoria, who is a volunteer Campaigns Ambassador for Cancer Research UK, is issuing a rallying cry for people to back the charity’s Turning Point for Cancer campaign. Underlining an alarming £1bn gap in UK funding for life-saving research over the next decade, she says the illness must be a top election priority for all political parties. Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to NorthernIrelandWorld, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.
Victoria, who lost her nanny to pancreatic cancer in 2014, her grandad to prostate cancer in 2017 and saw her dad receive a bladder and prostate cancer diagnosis in 2022, is urging Westminster candidates to commit to help transform cancer survival if they’re elected. Her call comes as new analysis from the charity reveals around 2.2 million people in the UK are projected to be diagnosed with the disease in the next five years.
Victoria told the Chronicle: “Cancer affects every family, in every constituency. We must make sure it is at the forefront of the minds of all future Westminster MPs in every UK nation. “As political parties reach out to the country, there’s never been a better opportunity to come together and demand the action people affected by cancer so desperately need and deserve.
So, I hope local people will get involved by emailing their local candidates and having their say. Advertisement Advertisement “Saving lives must com.
