A Buckinghamshire MP has recently been elected as the new chairman of a group to help cancer patients. Greg Smith was appointed the All Party Political Group chair for Minimally Invasive Cancer Therapies on May 17, in their inaugural meeting to officially form the group. The group has been formed to help drive awareness of Minimally Invasive Cancer Therapies (MICT) and ensure that eligible patients from across the UK can have timely access to the treatments. Chair of the APPG for MICT and MP for Buckingham, Greg Smith said: “I am very happy to have been elected Chair of the All Party Political Group for Minimally Invasive Cancer Therapies.
He discovered that there was a lack of appropriate information and that the level of cancer awareness amongst his Afro Caribbean community was very limited.
Professor Chinegwundoh, Consultant Urological Surgeon at St Barts Hospital, was made chair of trustees in 1998 and was instrumental in bringing about policy changes which have had far reaching effects nationally.
He said: There are very few black organisations in the cancer sector. Raising independent funds to keep going has been a constant struggle. Every now and then we get pots of money to do a particular projects, such as a men s drop in project, but to get core running costs is a struggle.