Welcome to the Nicola Murray Foundation.

 

The Nicola Murray Foundation is a registered charity that funds research into projects related to ovarian cancer.

Since 2010, the Charity has been working in partnership with Edinburgh University at the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre. In 2016, the Nicola Murray Centre for Ovarian Cancer Research was established at the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre.

All funds raised are channelled directly to the Nicola Murray Centre for Ovarian Cancer Research with the aim to improve the treatment and outcome of Ovarian cancer sufferers.

Ovarian cancer is the fourth most common cause of death from cancer amongst woman in the UK as it has a highly aggressive natural history and causes almost 125,000 deaths per year worldwide. Around 1 in 10 women who develop ovarian cancer is known to have been born with a faulty gene that runs in her family.

To find out more about Nicola please visit “About Nicola Murray”.

What We Do

Increasing awareness of HNPCC and raising funds to help understand it

Research

More about HNPCC and work the Edinburgh Cancer Centre is doing in this area

Fundraise

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Working in partnership with Edinburgh University

 
Building

The Nicola Murray Foundation is working in partnership with Edinburgh University and the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre who have a longstanding interest in HNPCC such that they are the only institution in the UK to routinely screen all patients under 60 with colorectal cancer for these defects.

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"HNPCC is a syndrome that greatly increases the risk of a person to bowel, womb or ovarian cancer at a young age."