Generic Fund Raising Letter

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14 March 2008

Dear Sirs
Diane Winston is a Kidney Cancer sufferer who desperately need a potential life saving drugs called Sorafenib which are being withheld from me by Hampshire Primary Care Trust ( PCT ).
Her support group is working on raising awareness of this situation which just about anyone of us could so easily find themselves in along with around 3000 people nationally who are already there. Would you be so kind as to let me know if your company would be so kind as to donate whatever it can to add to the attraction of prizes to be raffled in support of this.
In support of this work Vauxhall have already donated a car at cost which will be used in support of raising awareness while obtaining funds by raffling the car to purchase the life saving drug which are being withheld from me by Hampshire Primary Care Trust ( PCT ).
Meridian television is also on side and will be giving coverage to this event.
The following is a summary of her medical situation and can be confirmed with a doctor’s letter if required
In October 2006 she was diagnosed with Kidney cancer in my right kidney.

The primary tumor was removed on 6th November 2006, when an emergency operation was necessary in the evening to stop internal bleeding.
This was followed by a 3-month course of Interferon, which was terminated three weeks early because of my inability to tolerate the side-effects. The most recent MRI and CT scans have shown that the cancer has spread significantly and there are new sites, which clearly indicates the reduced treatment has failed..

Had her cancer been diagnosed earlier there is every possibility that it could have been caught at Stage I and not Stage IV, permitting a better prognosis and chance of survival.
As a member of NHS staff, she is aware of the complex financial decisions that need to be made when introducing new medication as a standard treatment. However, she is also aware that Sorafenib has been shown in a clinical trial to increase survival (with a statistically significant difference compared with placebos), and that this would give her a chance to delay or halt the disease within my body and permit greater freedom of movement. In fact, Sorafenib is prescribed to patients suffering from advanced kidney cancer in the U.S.A. and in Europe. Its use in the U.K. is being considered by NICE, which will report on it in 2009, but that might be too late for me.

So far her husband Lionel Winston has secured assured coverage of Vauxhall involvement with Meridian Television and is working on placing the car on site at the HMS Sultan Summer show and the Meet the Navy Weekend in July of this car. These venues would secure maximum publicity for all involved by doing so would raise awareness of this situation.


Thank you.


Yours truly,

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