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How your Banquet helps

At the heart of our research is the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre - the first dedicated breast cancer research facility in the UK. At the centre, our scientists conduct cutting-edge biological research to understand the causes of breast cancer, find better ways to detect the disease, identify more effective and gentler treatments, and understand how to prevent breast cancer.

Find out more about Breakthrough Breast Cancer's vital research.

£20 buys two specialised gels

Breakthrough researchers study all the thousands of different proteins in breast cancer cells using a special gel, which separates them out according to their size.

£20 buys two specialised gels which scientists can use to discover precisely how breast cancer treatments work, and how they can be improved.

£125 buys a pipette

When doing experiments Breakthrough scientists carefully prepare all the ingredients needed using a pipette - a scientist's best friend!

£125 buys a pipette helping our scientists conduct complex experiments to find out why breast cancer develops, and how it spreads.

£4,000 buys an incubator

Breast cancer cells are grown in an incubator set at body temperature.

£4,000 buys a specialist incubator allowing our scientists to find out exactly how breast cancer cells grow.