The Christie charity Impact Report 2021-22

FUNDING A NEW SURGICAL ACADEMY Toby Ward was just 34 when he went into hospital for a routine operation for a ruptured appendix - only for cancer to be found during his surgery.

Toby was referred to Professor Sarah O’Dwyer at The Christie, who confirmed that he had an aggressive type of cancer which had spread to his abdominal wall, intestines, spleen and further. Toby needed life-saving advanced surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) treatment – highly specialist surgery where a patient’s tissues involved in the tumour are stripped away (called cytoreductive surgery CRS) following which the internal organs are treated with heated chemotherapy.

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