Invite your MP to the Save the Rare Cancers Bill

Save the Rare Cancers Bill

Just 3% of annual UK research spending on cancer is invested in pancreatic cancer. People with pancreatic cancer deserve better. 

A  piece of potential legislation has been introduced to the UK Parliament called the Rare Cancers Bill. It could finally make pancreatic cancer a research priority across the UK.

The Bill has reached a crucial stage - but is now at risk of failing. We need at least 40 MPs to attend a debate in Parliament on Friday 11th July to ensure it moves through to the next stage.  

Ask your MP to attend the debate 

Read more about the Rare Cancers Bill

The Rare Cancers Bil is a potential law which will reach its final stages in the House of Commons on 11th July. It is the second Private Members Bill on the order paper.

If it becomes law, it has the potential to improve survival rates for pancreatic cancer and other cancers that have been left behind.

While pancreatic cancer is a more common cancer, it is considered a rare disease because around 1 in 6,000 people in the UK are living with pancreatic cancer. This means it is covered by this Bill, which focusses on cancers which affect fewer than 1 in 2,000 people.

We have long campaigned for more investment in research for pancreatic cancer and the less survivable cancers. Now, we’re proud to be working closely with Dr Scott Arthur MP, who introduced the Bill, The Brain Tumour Charity, and other coalitions working on less survivable and rare cancers, to urge MPs to support this Bill to pass to the House of Lords.

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