The charity, set up by Debbie Dowie, a cancer survivor and wife of retired footballer Iain Dowie, hopes to raise in excess of £100,000 at next month’s Bollywood Ball.

Ken Partridge took the plunge in aid of Cancer Research UK

Doctors Ian and Lynne Hampson proving a winning combination at home and in the lab

Breakthrough treatment was applied to Kenyan woman Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi

Rebekah Kirby’s devastated brother Samuel had been desperately trying to raise money to pay for a flight home from New Zealand

Rebekah Kirby, 22, of Oldham, died of stomach and lung cancer on Monday night, having only been diagnosed on December 20

Becky Sherry claims adverts are ‘despicable’

Cervical Cancer Prevention Week 2014 is January 19-25

Survey reveals more care about skin and teeth than lungs

Irwin Mitchell call for victims to receive 80% of payout

Alf Meakin, 74, had op at Manchester Royal Hospital