 Patients will be involved in clinical research at the hospital |
A new skin cancer unit has been opened at a hospital in West Sussex thanks to a �20,000 donation from a charity set up in the name of a woman who died. The money from the Myfanwy Townsend Melanoma Research Fund will pay for a new specialist nurse at the Queen Victoria Hospital, in East Grinstead.
Myfanwy Townsend died from malignant melanoma in October 1999, aged 60.
Her husband Harry said the unit at the hospital where his wife spent time as a nurse was "a dream come true".
'Terrible disease'
The unit allow patients access to one-stop pigmented lesion clinics, education programmes and involvement in clinical research aimed at improving melanoma skin cancer care.
Mr Townsend added: "Early diagnosis and raising awareness is so essential to combat this terrible disease."
He has done a lot of fundraising for the charity, which has including pushing a wheelbarrow for 800 miles, and walking the length of North Island, in New Zealand.
He said the charity was set up in his wife's name to raise money to strive to find a cure for skin cancer because "she had spent her life working for others, and now it was our turn to work for her".
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