Saving Faces are incredibly grateful to the Hollick Family Foundation for their recent generous donation to support our work.
Saving Faces is the only charity in the UK solely dedicated to reducing the incidence of facial injuries, disorders and diseases including oral cancer worldwide. Our mission is to improve treatment for these conditions and the psychological outcomes by leading research into these conditions.
Saving Faces Patron Baroness Helena Kennedy KC will perform a important role in the Coronation Service of King Charles III.
Baroness Kennedy will process to the altar carrying The Queen Consort’s Rod at the Coronation Service at Westminster Abbey.
Baroness Kennedy featured on Channel 4 News talking about her role in the service which is available to view here.
You can read further details on the website of the Royal Family here and further media coverage here.
Original post can be found here.
The findings of the Selective Elective Neck Dissection (SEND study) funded by Elliott Bernerd, Robbie and Lisa Tchenguiz in memory of their mother Violet, Cancer Research UK, and Saving Faces, was published in the British Journal of Cancer.
Saving Faces Patron Baroness Helena Kennedy KC appeared on Private Passions on BBC Radio 3.
In conversation with Michael Berkeley, she looks back to the childhood which has been so influential on her campaigns for justice, and chooses the music which has sustained her through a series of difficult and high-profile cases. Her playlist includes Handel, Bach, Schubert, George Benjamin, James MacMillan, and her favourite Puccini opera, with Mimi’s famous aria from La Boheme.
You can listen to the programme here.
Professor Hutchison comments on the appalling events happening in Iran of Iranian forces shooting at the faces and genitals of female protesters.
Read full article here – https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/dec/08/iranian-forces-shooting-at-faces-and-genitals-of-female-protesters-medics-say
We are back with our annual Carols at Christmas concert on Tuesday 6th December 2022 at the beautiful Saint Bartholomew the Great in London.
The service will commence at 6.30pm. This will be a great chance to meet up with friends and other supporters, many of whom are patients and their families. This is also our way to say thank you to all our supporters for their continued support of our important work.
Click here to view the full invitation and donation form. If you would like to make a donation, please print and return the form to info@savingfaces.co.uk or by post to: Saving Faces, 71 Tonbridge Street, London, WC1H 9DZ.
Bus: The 17, 45, 46, 63, 8, 25, 56, 4, 153, 242, 521, 100, 243 and 341 buses are all within walking distance of the church.
Tube: Barbican or Farringdon (Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines) / St Paul’s (Central line)
Elizabeth Line (Crossrail): The Farringdon Elizabeth Line Station has an exit called “Barbican” in Long Lane, West Smithfield.
Parking: The nearest car parks are in Beech Street (under the Barbican) and West Smithfield.
The event is free but spaces are limited (250 attendees). Please RSVP with our friendly team at info@savingfaces.co.uk or ring 07487 235 438 / 020 3417 7757.
We are thrilled that the Saving Faces Art Project is featured in this wonderful free to download book for medical students, trainees, allied healthcare professions and anyone wanting to know more about Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery!
Many congratulations to all involved, we hope this book inspires many individuals!
The book is free to download here
All of us at Saving Faces are sad to hear of the passing of supporters Ray Majors and Sandy Dillon.
Ray was a patient of Saving Faces Chief Executive, Professor Iain Hutchison and provided valuable advice through our Saving Faces Expert Patient Helpline.
You can read more about the lives of Ray and Sandy here.
The UK’s surgical research charity Saving Faces and its national research centre NFORC are proud to support Professor Jag Dhanda of the Brighton Medical School and Helen Please of the Global Anaesthesia, Surgery and Obstetric Collaboration Trainee Collaboration as they launch Virtual Reality in Medicine and Surgery.
This is a world first training over 1,400 doctors from low-and middle-income countries today and over the next 4 days in real time at Brighton Medical School and Hospital how to perform life-saving surgery using virtual reality.
The use of virtual reality will immerse the doctors in the operations and dissections of how to perform life-saving surgery in African communities which are remote from major cities and hospitals.
You can listen to our Chief Executive Professor Iain Hutchison discussing VRiMS here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSatS0yabqU
qMIDS, the world’s first rapid oral cancer test, has been developed by Queen Mary University of London and an international team of researchers. It has the potential to relieve pressure on the NHS and may improve the early detection of oral cancer.
Saving Faces has supported researchers at Queen Mary University of London who have developed the world’s first PCR test for mouth cancer. The test has now been proved with patients from China, India and the UK, with the results published in the international journal, Cancers. The inventor, Dr Muy-Teck Teh, named the test the Quantitative Malignant Index Diagnosis System (qMIDS).
qMIDS diagnostic accuracy would mean that 90% of low-risk patients could be discharged from hospital to go back to their dentist or GP for review. Or they might be tested in the dentist’s surgery and only referred to secondary care if they were high risk. High-risk cases could also be detected in the pre-cancer period and treated definitively, thereby saving the patient’s life with minor surgery, better cure rates and quality of life, as well as a huge reduction in health service costs.
The test process is largely automated, removing the need for expensive pathologists. There’s also no need for invasive biopsies. The tests can be carried out on multiple sites when patients have lesions affecting large areas throughout the mouth.
Co-study lead, Professor Iain Hutchison, stated: “qMIDS dramatically improves our management of mouth cancer and its pre-cancerous state, saving lives and healthcare costs. Surgeons and dentists anywhere in the world can use this test for minimally invasive tissue samples because all it needs is a PCR machine and the technician who operates it.
“qMIDS will help us identify patients with pre-malignancies that will never transform to cancer, so they can be reassured and discharged from hospital review. Patients with high-risk premalignancy can have minor surgery to remove the lesion before it has transformed to cancer, thereby curing the patient and saving them major surgery, which in turn reduces health service costs. It is a powerful tool especially when used in conjunction with conventional histopathology assessment.”
Read full journal article here
Read news coverage here