The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 44,000 patients a year.
The Christie hospital is based in Manchester and serves a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 26% of patients are referred from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 10 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run a large, high quality, dedicated clinical research environment where our patients can participate in complex and early phase clinical trials, with around 400 trials taking place at any one time.
The Christie Hospital welcomes donations. Charitable donations are vitally important in enabling The Christie charity continue its work in the battle against cancer.
Among the services delivered are:
Acute Oncology manage the unexpected care needs of patients with cancer, including emergency situations, acute complications and acutely unwell patients and
Brachytherapy , which is the oldest form of radiotherapy, but also one of the least known. In its most simple form, brachytherapy is bringing a radioactive source close to a tumour.
Chemotherapy means using medicines to treat cancer. There are lots of different chemotherapy medicines and we often give several medicines in combination to increase the effectiveness of treatment.