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Red Trouser Day has recently held its autumn funding rounds looking at the Applications received. We are pleased to announce the following awards which amount to a commitment of £49,000. Our focus is improving early detection and patient outcomes.

1) rAI-colon
AI-Driven Assistance for Colorectal Biopsy Triage and Diagnosis – Dr Shaobin Wu (ESNEFT)

This project has arisen from activity of Red Trouser Day in Suffolk. The project is a collaboration between the company C-Prio and the East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT). The project aims to prove, using a large number of cases, that an AI analysis tool will “enhance the accuracy and efficiency of colorectal biopsy analysis, potentially eliminating delays and improving early diagnosis and treatment.”

To clarify the position re C-Prio; Red Trouser Day is not funding a commercial company but paying funds to the Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals Charity – ESNEFT , which is funding medical staff and the company on the project. Should C-Prio become a successful financial entity in the future, Red Trouser Day may be the recipient of some ongoing donations.

2) Project Mercury 3
An AI Imaging Project to confirm tumour deposits in the vascular system are a more powerful predictor of secondary bowel cancer tumours than the lymph system – Professor Gina Brown (Imperial College)

A project which is looking at information available from scans reviewing lymph inflammation vs vascular spread. The hypothesis is that swollen lymph glands represent the immune system doing its job, the spread of cancer being via the vascular system.

The project is to establish a clinical trial, using AI to assist in interpreting scans, to train radiologist practitioners to view data differently in determining stage and spread of the cancer.

3) Andromeda Project
A feasibility study in Dose treatment in Rectal cancer –Dr Manasi Ingle, PhD Clinical Fellow (Institute of Cancer Research)

The aims of the project are broadly to demonstrate that a new approach which adapts radiation dose with the help of MRI integrated radiotherapy can improve response rates and organ preservation. Whilst this is not an early diagnosis project, the RTD CHOPS team believe that it has the potential to significantly improve patient outcomes and wellbeing, fitting with our charitable objectives .

4) Joint Bursary with Penguins Against Cancer (PAC)
Penguins Against Cancer are a similar sized cancer research charity with similar ethos to Red Trouser Day. We have launched a joint bursary award to fund some innovative research work in bowel cancer with a particular focus on early stage diagnosis and treatment. This is to be known as the RTD-PAC Simon Bunting award. Simon is a colleague of the PAC team who was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2023. More news on this when an award is made.

5) Annual Donation to the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity
When Red Trouser Day was founded in 2016, an arrangement was entered into with the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity so that in return for using the Royal Marsden name in our fund raising, we are committed to donating 80% of net proceeds from any event using the name to the RMCC. This year (as indeed in previous years) 100% of proceeds from our annual Surrey Golf & Ramble Day in Farleigh (Warlingham, Surrey) are granted to the RMCC. This year that amounts to £10k. Over the last 8 years we have donated £190k to the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity in support of Royal Marsden Clinician led projects.

Please help us to help thousands of people avoid life changing treatment.

Red Trouser Day is a volunteer Charity with an independent community of patients, volunteers & clinicians improving outcomes through research into the prevention, early diagnosis and cure of colorectal cancer.

Key Charity Goals

• 95% of all funds raised (excluding event costs) go to sponsor research
• A focus on clinical research for prevention and earlier diagnosis
• Patient advocacy in support of our research objectives
• A self-sustaining community of patients, supporters, clinicians & researchers

For more information go to https://redtrouserday.com