Cancer Emergency Appeal

In the UK, the NHS treats cancer without a bill at the door. In the communities we serve, a family often pays out of pocket. A scan, a biopsy, a cycle of chemotherapy — any one of those can be the reason a patient goes home untreated. A mother sits with a letter from a hospital and a sum she cannot find. That wait is where your donation matters.

Please give to the Cancer Emergency Appeal. We will use your gift to pay the cost of care that a locally licensed doctor has already recommended, in a registered hospital. World Aid Network does not run hospitals and does not employ oncologists. We fund the bill that stands between a patient and treatment.

You do not have to travel. You do not have to send medicines from Britain. The most useful thing you can do tonight is donate. A gift of £50 can cover one chemotherapy session. £100 can cover a diagnostic scan. £500 can help fund surgery where partners quote that cost. Please give what you can.

A woman with a breast lump she can feel may still wait, because the mammogram and the biopsy have a price. A child with leukaemia may start chemotherapy and stop when the money runs out. A man with early prostate cancer may never start hormone treatment. In Britain those pathways sit inside the NHS. Where we work, they sit on a family’s kitchen table as an invoice.

Lung cancer is the world’s leading cancer killer — about 1.8 million deaths a year. Cervical cancer kills over 342,000 women a year globally, more than 90% of them in low- and middle-income countries, even though it is among the most preventable cancers when found early. Childhood cancer survival is around 80% with funded treatment in high-income countries and often under 20% for a poor family without funded care. Those figures are why this appeal exists.

The cameras leave. The course of chemotherapy does not. Please do not wait for the next headline. Give now to the Cancer Emergency Appeal so a patient already in a partner hospital is not sent home mid-treatment.

Use the form beside this appeal, or open the donate page and choose cancer treatment. Keep this appeal selected. That gift is your donation to the Cancer Emergency Appeal. We will turn it into imaging, surgery or chemotherapy at a partner hospital.

If you can, give every month. Cancer treatment is a course, not a single afternoon. A regular gift means partners can keep treating people who cannot pay without waiting for a new fundraising drive. A one-off gift still matters. Please give today.

If your mosque, church, workplace or friends are collecting, gather what you can and donate it here. Tell them it will pay a hospital bill for a patient in Pakistan, Indonesia or Malaysia. That is the whole of the ask.

Breast cancer, lung cancer, bowel cancer, prostate cancer, cervical cancer, blood cancers, childhood cancers and other types are all in scope. Guides on this site cover nineteen cancers. Funding follows what a licensed partner oncologist has recommended and the hospital can give.

We do not promise a named drug from a UK private clinic. We do not fly patients to Britain. We fund what a PMDC-registered doctor in Pakistan, a KKI-registered doctor in Indonesia or an MMC-registered doctor in Malaysia has recommended, in a registered hospital. Continuity matters: a child on chemotherapy should not stop mid-course because the money ran out.

Please donate to the Cancer Emergency Appeal. Your gift is how a recommended treatment becomes a given treatment.

Cancer does not discriminate by type. For a poor patient, the barrier is the same whether the diagnosis is breast cancer, leukaemia, bowel cancer or a childhood tumour — the bill. Trustees direct gifts to the most urgent shortfall: a child mid-leukaemia course, a cervical surgery list, a woman whose breast cancer treatment has a gap, a man who cannot pay for prostate treatment.

Guides on this site cover nineteen cancer types so people can understand symptoms and tests. This appeal funds the treatment itself. We do not run research labs. We do not replace the NHS. We pay hospital bills in Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Please give if you want that promise kept. A donation to the Cancer Emergency Appeal is a donation to a patient who cannot pay for the pathway that would be routine on the NHS.

A woman with early-stage breast cancer can be cured with surgery. A child with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia who completes a funded course has a high chance of remission. A man with early prostate cancer can live for years on hormone treatment. Without money, those sentences do not happen. The cancer is the same biology. The invoice is the difference.

Late presentation makes everything harder and more expensive. Families delay a GP visit because they fear the tests that follow. By the time they reach a partner hospital, disease that could have been treated early is advanced. Your gift to the Cancer Emergency Appeal is how a family can say yes to the next appointment.

Please donate today. We cannot change a country’s health system overnight. We can pay for the patient in front of a licensed oncologist this week.

Unlike some solid tumours that can be removed in an operation, blood cancers need months or years of drugs. Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia — the most common childhood blood cancer — achieves remission in over 90% of patients who complete a full funded course. Mid-course abandonment turns a curable cancer into a death sentence.

The Cancer Emergency Appeal prioritises continuity for patients already in a partner pathway who are at risk of stopping. That is not a slogan. It is a trustee decision when a hospital says the money has run out and the child is mid-protocol.

Please give. A monthly gift matches a long course. A one-off gift still bridges a gap. Donate to the Cancer Emergency Appeal so treatment is not abandoned for want of a bill.

Childhood cancers are rarely caused by anything a parent did. They respond well to treatment when the treatment is given. The heartbreaking difference is geography and money. Specialist children’s protocols exist in partner hospitals. The barrier is paying for them.

Please donate to the Cancer Emergency Appeal. Childhood treatment is part of this appeal — and continuity for a child already on chemotherapy is exactly the kind of urgent shortfall trustees can meet.

You cannot send a protocol from the UK in a parcel. You can pay for the protocol that is already written, in a hospital that is already licensed. Give today.

Lung cancer: adult male smoking rates in Indonesia exceed 70%, and tobacco use is widespread across all three countries. Air pollution from industry and biomass cooking fuel adds risk. Liver cancer: Pakistan has one of the world’s heaviest burdens of chronic hepatitis C, and Indonesia has a significant hepatitis B burden. Both viruses cause cirrhosis over decades, which leads to hepatocellular carcinoma.

Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers when HPV vaccination and screening exist. In many of the communities we serve, those programmes are limited and cultural barriers delay examination. Most women are diagnosed when the cancer is already advanced. More than 90% of the 342,000 women who die of cervical cancer each year globally are in low- and middle-income countries.

This appeal does not run a vaccination campaign or a national screening service. It pays for treatment a partner hospital can give to a patient who cannot pay. Please donate if that is the help you want to fund.

Please choose an amount and donate. The figures below are typical costs partners quote. They are a guide to what kindness can buy — a week of medicines, a blood test, a chemotherapy session, a scan, a course of drugs, an operation. What a patient receives depends on the diagnosis, the hospital and what they need that week.

That is the promise of this appeal. You give. We turn your money into treatment for someone who cannot pay. Please do not leave the page without giving if you are able.

Partner hospitals identify patients with clinical need who cannot pay. Trustees approve grants against that need. Funds pay the hospital, not a middle-person in cash. Care is delivered under national medical registration — PMDC in Pakistan, KKI in Indonesia, MMC in Malaysia.

Buying the treatment locally is the point. The surgeon is already there. The theatre is already there. The missing piece is the bill. Please donate so that piece is filled. If you want to give in memory of someone, or as a group, write to [email protected] and we will mark the gift for the Cancer Emergency Appeal.

Money that has already been given can move when a hospital says a woman needs a mastectomy she cannot afford, or a child is about to miss the next cycle. That is why a standing Cancer Emergency Appeal matters more than a one-day fundraiser after a famous diagnosis.

Please donate today — once, or every month — so the next patient is not sent home while the world organises a response.

You do not need to send medicines from Britain. You do not need to travel. Parcels of tablets usually arrive late, may be the wrong drug, and cost more than paying the hospital in front of the patient. The useful thing a supporter in London, Birmingham, Glasgow or a village hall can do is give.

If your workplace, school, mosque or church is collecting, bring the money here. Gift Aid starts when Charity Commission registration is granted. We will tell donors when that happens. Please give what you can.

Chemotherapy is a course. Disasters of cost do not follow a fundraising calendar. A regular gift means we can say yes when a partner asks for the next cycle, the next scan, the next operation.

Please start a monthly gift at the amount that is comfortable for you. You can change it later. If you would rather give once, that gift is welcome too. Donate today.

Both jobs matter. They are not the same job. World Aid Network’s Objects for this appeal are treatment for poor patients in Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia. Immunotherapy breakthroughs and clinical trials are typically funded by research institutes. We do not promise named brand drugs from a UK private menu.

Please give to this page if you want a scan, an operation or a chemotherapy cycle to happen for someone who cannot pay. That is the whole of the Cancer Emergency Appeal.