After Alan Morement died from cholangiocarcinoma at the end of the year 2000 AMMF (The Alan Morement Memorial Fund) was set up and registered as a charity with the aim of raising funds for research into the causes, treatments and cures for cancers of the gastrointestinal tract, and especially cholangiocarcinoma .
AMMF is the only registered charity in the UK working to raise funds for research into cholangiocarcinoma , a liver cancer occurring within the bile ducts.
Cholangiocarcinoma is considered a rare cancer and very little research has previously been undertaken into this disease. Recently however, an enormous and extremely worrying worldwide increase in its incidence has been flagged, and now research has begun in earnest.
In the UK alone, more than 1500 people are diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma each year, where it is responsible for more deaths per annum than cervical cancer.
The charity’s current objectives are to raise the awareness of cholangiocarcinoma , to impart information and to support specialised research teams in their work to find the causes, methods of earlier diagnosis and treatments for this disease.
