BEATSON PEBBLE APPEAL

That this House supports the Beatson Pebble Appeal, a £10 million campaign to raise funds to build the Beatson Translational Research Centre which will foster collaboration between scientists and clinical researchers to improve existing cancer therapies and develop new treatments; notes that more than one in three people in the UK will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetime and that cancer causes one in four deaths in the UK, but that cancer research has been instrumental in reducing the overall cancer death rate by 10 per cent. over the last decade; further notes that translational research bridges that chasm between scientific discovery and successful patient treatment and that this facility will greatly enhance the capability of the Glasgow Centre for Cancer Research; and praises the efforts of the Pebble Appeal to raise the additional funds required to build this exceptional facility.