Welcome to Pink Events Charity
Our Charity was founded by Sarah Pattinson (1966-2023) . Please follow the link to see the announcement, click here.
March 2024 – Pink Events were awarded Cancer Research’s Flame of Hope award for a second time. We first received the award in 2017 and are proud to be recognised again by Cancer Research UK, something which very few have ever achieved and so it is a great honour.
I have been using two different drugs, called talniflumate or GO-203, to block Mucin17. I’ve been testing these in combination with the chemotherapy agent epirubicin on two lines of cells growing in the laboratory that represent two different types of breast cancer, the triple negative breast cancers, and the estrogen receptor positive breast cancer cells. My results show that my new drugs decrease the amount of this molecule on breast cancer cells, and that using these drugs in combination with chemotherapy leads to an increased killing of cancer cells as compared to chemotherapy alone.
This combination also looked much more promising in the triple negative breast cancer cells, and it is this cancer type that often has the worst outcomes and most needs improved therapies. This means that with future research we can potentially decrease the amount of chemotherapy required for triple negative breast cancer patients, while killing as many cancer cells, but decreasing the overall side-effects for these patients.”
We would like to thank Ritika for her hard work and for keeping us informed, in lay terms, of the results of the work. Pink Events have now agreed with the Breast Care Unit to fund a further two year research project, the details of which are being worked on now. This confirms Pink Events commitment to finding ways to improve the outcomes of treatment for Breast Cancer patients.