Cancer patients are referred to the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre from 13 District General Hospitals in Herts, Bucks, Beds and N.W. London. These cancer patients, numbering some 5,000 a year, benefit from the excellence of the clinical and laboratory research programmes in the Cancer Centre and at the Gray Laboratory. Scientists at the Gray Laboratory work very closely with doctors in the Cancer Centre and thanks to this partnership, patients living in the area are able to be included in trials for treatments which are right at the cutting edge of science. Health Ltd. The object of this charity is to use art as a means of relieving the distress and hardship experienced by patients suffering from cancer and other serious diseases and help to inform them, their families and carers about the illness and its treatment. All funds raised in the name of the charity will be used to promote further showing of these, and other exhibitions linking art and medicine, to the widest possible public.
Handlist catalogue accompanies the exhibition A Picture of Health.
A Booklet entitled Reviewing a Picture of Health which includes An Essay by a Breast Cancer Patient, who expresses vividly her thoughts and emotions about the exhibition, is also available. The proceeds from the exhibition entry fees and sales of the brochure will go towards the work of the Gray Laboratory and the Cancer Centre at Mount Vernon Hospital.