Tribute download to fund cervical cancer research at UCL

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Phillips's poignant version of Paolo Nutini's 'Autumn', recorded on her mobile phone four hours before her mother Debbie died of cervical cancer, generated an overwhelming response when posted on YouTube. The track has now been released on iTunes, with a view to raising money for the Debbie Phillips Cervical Cancer Research Fund, which will support research into cervical cancer at UCL through the UCL Cancer Institute Research Trust. Sarah's father Mark Phillips said: ?My wife Debbie fought cancer with grace and dignity for four years. Debbie and I felt that we needed to try to do something to help doctors improve the detection and cure of cervical cancer, which affects many young women and mothers like her. The UCL Cancer Institute Research Trust supports the UCL Cancer Institute, the central organising body for cancer research at UCL, which brings together UCL's cancer expertise in this area in fields as diverse as nanotechnology, engineering, developmental biology and stem cell research. The institute's mission is to carry out internationally recognised cancer research and to train a new generation of cancer researchers and scientists. It is tackling some of the areas of cancer that have proved most resistant to treatment so far.