The Who, Richard Ashcroft, Jeff Beck + Debbie Harry announced for a charity gig in January.

The Who, Richard Ashcroft, Jeff Beck, Debbie Harry, and Bryan Adams are joining forces for a charity gig in January. With other high profile names to be announced in the coming weeks.

The one off special event will happen at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo on Thursday 13th January 2011, with all proceeds going to the 'Killing Cancer' charity, which funds research into a little-known therapy that destroys cancer cells with a single treatment – without patients suffering the emotional and physical trauma of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Says Bill Curbishley, manager of The Who and Robert Plant said, "Robert and I had lived through the final months and days of close friends battling with cancer, but also fighting to overcome the effects of their treatments. Only later we discovered that PDT could perhaps have saved their lives – and certainly given them some dignity in their final weeks."

Charity director, David Longman, has engaged the interest of a wide cross-section of celebrities and high profile business leaders to back his campaign to secure support for Photodynamic Therapy (PDT).

PDT works by light combining with a drug that switches off the oxygen reaching the target cells - and is a fraction of the cost of current cancer treatments.

PDT has been developed over many years at hospitals including Ninewells in Dundee, Royal Cornwall in Truro and University College Hospital in London. It is approved now by NICE for the treatment of skin, mouth, lung and oesophageal cancers.

Concert impresario, Harvey Goldsmith, says that of all his charity projects, this one for 'Killing Cancer' has a special significance. "I lost my mother to cancer in the past 12 months. I saw how she struggled but finally lost the fight to beat her cancer. People often say that the treatment is worse than the cancer. I have seen how PDT is a much more gentle treatment and the funds Bill, myself and some great friends in the business have already pledged, is giving pancreatic cancer patients real hope. With this cancer there is currently only a 3% chance of survival. In the PDT trial this concert is funding, we have hope and expectation that we can dramatically improve the survival odds for patients."

Proceeds from the concert will also be supporting new trials with PDT for throat cancer and for disfiguring vascular tumours – including birthmarks.

Tickets will go on sale from 9am on Friday, 19th November and eGigs will have links to buy them then.

Find out more at www.killingcancer.co.uk

FUTURE GIGS

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