Malignant Melanoma Research Fund - Factor 50 Fundraisers

Welcome to our website. We hope you will find the site useful and spend time browsing the various areas. The Factor 50 Fundraising Group was born in the Autumn of 2007.

One of our fundraisers has a friend with Malignant Melanoma, and having seen the struggle he faced, she wanted to try and help create some awareness of the disease, and also raise some much needed funds.

Dr Paul Lorigan, Lecturer in Medical Oncology at the Christie Hospital told us that there was a particular trial that he wanted to bring to the UK, the technology for which is currently only available in the USA. With this in mind we started Factor 50 and we hope that through all our efforts, the melanoma team can develop and evaluate this new treatment for the benefit of all patients with melanoma.

There are various fundraising events going on throughout the coming months and each individual/group has their own page. Please log on to their pages, have a look at the great efforts that are being made and if you are sponsoring them, follow the links to the online donations.

We hope that through our efforts we can make a difference to people suffering from Malignant Melanoma, raise awareness of the importance of skin care and protection in the sun.

For all enquiries regarding our work, you can email us on factor50enquiries@googlemail.com Let us have details of your enquiry and we will do our best to get back to you within 24 hours.

There are various ways in which you can support Factor 50.   As well as the fundraising events, there are sponsorship packages available.   Email us or speak to Gill - 07930 375360.

Thank you

Gill Nuttall & Jenny Wright

ERNIE COOKSEY 11 June 1980 - 2 July 2008

Sadly, young Ernie Cooksey who was also a sufferer of Malignant Melanoma, lost his battle against the disease two days ago.   Ernie leaves his young partner Louise, who is expecting their first child in a few weeks time and of course his loving family and friends.   Ernie was treated by Dr Lorigan and was a great supporter of the work we are doing at Factor 50.   He was a lovely character and will be very sadly missed. 

LANCASHIRE COUNTY CRICKETERS supporting Factor50.

Luke Sutton and Stuart Laws took time out of their busy schedule to get behind the campaign. Luke and Stuart said, "We are very proud to endorse and support the work that Factor50 are doing on behalf of the Christie Hospital. Being professional cricketers we are out in the sun for long periods during our season. Whilst it is great to be out in the fresh air and sunshine, we are very conscious that over exposure to the sun combined with poor skin protection can have a devastating effect on the skin. We wish Factor50 and the Christie Hospital every success with their campaign"

The Melanoma Genetics Consortium (GenoMEL) needs 10,000 people to complete a questionnaire on sun-related behaviour. GenoMEL is an international research consortium coordinated by the University of Leeds. The questionnaire takes about 20 to 30 minutes to complete. For more details, go to www.genomel.org