A Lasting Legacy

You can support OPA Cancer Charity by making a gift in your Will; one of the most effective ways to help ensure that our fight against oesophageal and gastric cancers continues our mission to save the lives of future generations.

OPA has supported thousands of patients since it started over thirty years ago. By remembering OPA in your Will you can help us continue and to save the lives of future generations of family and friends. Your legacy will help to fight oesophageal and gastric cancers and support patients, families and carers to cope with this devastating disease.

OPA supports people with life threatening cancers and works to save lives through our national campaign to create public awareness and early diagnosis. However, people of all ages should be made be aware regular heartburn or indigestion could be early symptoms of oesophageal or gastric cancers which can be dealt with through a straight forward procedure long before developing into cancer.

How your Gift will Help

Your gift will help the OPA to promote early diagnosis and will assist patients who are facing or recovering from an operation for one of the most unpleasant, lifechanging and rapidly increasing cancers.

Early symptoms may only show as heartburn or indigestion, often resulting in late referral and diagnosis. Treatment by surgery is extremely complex with long operations that often involve restructuring the digestive organs in the chest, which is a traumatic procedure.

Your gift helps us to continue to give medically informed support to patients, families and carers through:
• Our national telephone helpline
• Online information and support
• Medically approved high quality information booklets
• UK wide network of patient support groups

Your gift will help us to continue to work with our strategic alliances to improve cancer treatment and outcomes and to continue our network of patient support groups across the UK.