Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT), the dedicated charity for Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie, is marking its ten year anniversary with a Wizard of Oz themed ball on Saturday 7 March. The ball, which takes place at Cambridge City Hotel, is being organised by Brains of Cambridge, a group of Entrepreneurial Studies students from Anglia Ruskin University.
The ball is raising money for ACT's neurosurgery microscope appeal, which aims to raise £304,369 to fund a new state-of-the-art neurosurgical microscope that uses fluorescent light technology to improve surgery for brain tumours and brain aneurysms. This innovative technology helps surgeons to see highly magnified brain tissue that would otherwise be invisible to the human eye. Rachel Ratcliffe, aged 38, from Newmarket, was treated with a neurosurgical microscope at Addenbrooke’s in 2012 to remove two aneurysms (bleeds on the brain). Rachel said: “If I hadn’t been treated at Addenbrooke’s with all their specialist equipment and knowledge, I might not have survived. I now enjoy making up for lost time with my gorgeous kids.” Rachel’s surgeon Rikin Trivedi said: “The difference surgical microscopes make to the quality of patient care has far exceeded our expectations, enabling us to operate in ways we could once only dream of. To continue to offer this high standard of care for more patients like Rachel, we desperately need a new surgical microscope as a matter of the utmost urgency.” Both Rachel and Rikin will be talking at the ball about their experiences of fluorescence microscope technology and how, with your kind support, many more patients will be able to have access to this vital treatment.- ACT Ten Year Anniversary Ball, Saturday 7 March, 7pm-midnight, Tickets £65 each or £575 for a table of ten.
- For tickets and more information, please visit www.brainsofcambridge.com
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