Cheryl Sayers

Cheryl Sayers

Atacama Desert Trek
February 2009

Raising money for TomoTherapy Research

Cheryl Sayers continues her amazing fundraising adventures with an upcoming trek across the Atacama Desert – one of the driest places on earth!

Cheryl's successful fundraising efforts have included trekking Mount Kilimanjaro in 2006 and taking on the Patagonia Hike in November 2007, all for TomoTherapy.

Cheryl’s late husband Peter Sayers, best known as BBC Radio Cambridgeshire’s Dennis of Grunty Fen, succumbed to cancer in 2005. The Pete Sayers Tribute Fund was set up to help realise one of his visions for the future – how new technologies can assist in the fight against cancer and potentially offer advances in finding a cure.

Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust is supporting a research study to evaluate the new technology for the Department of Health. This is likely to influence practice, and therefore to benefit cancer patients, both nationally and internationally over the next decade.

Cheryl said: "My late husband Pete was so strong and resolute when diagnosed with prostate cancer – I watched him on his personal journey through his illness which he survived for years longer than predicted. Healthy people have options. I cannot, I realise, face a physical challenge without wishing to help those less fortunate. Please give generously for this very important research!"