World-leading treatment and care
At The Royal Marsden we want to provide personalised treatment and care for a patient's cancer, but also support their emotional and physical wellbeing throughout their treatment.
Providing compassionate support
At The Royal Marsden, we offer patients world-leading treatment and care. We care for the whole person, not just their illness and support patients at every stage of their cancer journey.
In 2025/26, the quality of services grant continues to fund vital counselling and psychological support for patients, including the Adult Psychological Support Service, which helps care for patients’ mental health alongside their physical wellbeing.
The grant has also supported the provision of complementary therapies, including massage therapy, aromatherapy and reflexology. These therapies help inpatients and outpatients with complex symptoms including pain, anxiety and concerns around altered body image, from diagnosis to post-treatment.
In addition to these services, the Charity now supports The Royal Marsden Hotline, a vital resource for patients and their families available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Hotline offers patients medical advice and reassurance from experts in cancer care whenever they need support.
Personalised treatment and care
The grant has also helped to fund the prehabilitation team, which encompasses a range of therapies and medical support. The team works with patients to ensure they are physically and mentally ready to undergo cancer treatment, such as surgery, which helps to minimise cancelled or postponed operations as well as aiding the patient’s recovery.
Charity funding was also awarded to staff led projects like the Emerging from the Haze programme which developed resources to better support patients experiencing cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI). Informative videos and online learning resources were created to provide patients with tools and strategies to optimise cognition following cancer treatment, as well as understand their symptoms and how to seek help.
Training the next generation of surgeons
Thanks to our generous supporters, we also funded the UK’s first cross-speciality Robotic Surgery Fellowship Programme at The Royal Marsden. Launched in 2017, the programme trained surgeons to use the Charity funded da Vinci Xi surgical robots. The robots provide greater accuracy during operations and allow surgeons to operate on different areas of the body at once, which is often needed when dealing with advanced cancers. Robotic surgery is saving, and will continue to save, the lives of cancer patients.
The surgeons who completed the programme have gone on to work at hospitals around the world, spreading expertise beyond The Royal Marsden to transform the lives of cancer patients.
"The team at The Royal Marsden have been absolutely wonderful. They’ve approached my care in a rounded way, looking after me as a whole person, rather than just treating my disease or a list of symptoms."
Peter - Prostate cancer patient at The Royal Marsden.
