The charity initially funded a range of projects, however in 1964 Tenovus embarked on a project which was to influence their work over the next 40 years.

Since then, Tenovus have concentrated their efforts on cancer and Tenovus scientists have been recognised for their pioneering work.

In 2009, Tenovus developed further innovations to support cancer patients and their families including the Mobile Cancer Support Unit.

Tenovus spends around £ 1M on research each year both on laboratory research to help develop new treatments for cancer, and research in the community to help local people and their families.

There a more details of Tenovus ' research on their website.

Tenovus Cancer Support Team is unique in the way it provides help, guidance and support through its multi-disciplinary service ; allowing patients and their families to access a number of services directly through the charity.

Tenovus have developed a proactive telephone chemotherapy callback service where a Tenovus Cancer Nurse Specialist contacts cancer patients throughout their treatment to provide advice and support.

Edwards, the founder Chairman of the group of ten, cut the first sod on the site of the Tenovus Institute for Cancer Research in Cardiff.

The Tenovus Mobile Cancer Support Unit-" the bus " was launched at the Celtic Manor on February 2009 and brings cancer care to the heart of the patient's community.

Tenovus is a British cancer charity committed to the control of cancer through quality research, prevention / education, counselling and patient care.

Tamoxifen, a drug that is now used worldwide to treat breast cancer, was developed on behalf of ICI by Tenovus scientists.

Another drug with which Tenovus scientists were involved in is Zoldex, now also used worldwide.

Tenovus has built a system of cancer support services, including a Freephone Cancer Support Line-0808 808 1010.

Tenovus has funded world class cancer research for over 40 years.

Tenovus funded scientists have contributed to discoveries that have helped treat and care for millions of cancer patients all around the world.

Tenovus have funded research to help people in affected by cancer in Wales.

Working with Velindre NHS Trust, Tenovus has been delivering chemotherapy and other cancer treatments in Cwmbran and Nantgarw.

Tenovus have increased the services provided on the unit ; these now include Counselling, Welfare Rights and on-board Health Checks.

Image: TenoBus. jpg | Tenovus Mobile Cancer Support Unit

Tenovus ' Cancer Support Managers, who are qualified social workers, have helped over 500 new clients through advocacy and family support work.

Tenovus have a number of events throughout the year ranging from concerts, runs, abseils, dinners etc.

3 Peaks Challenge-Launched in 2003, the Tenovus 3 Peaks Challenge is now a key event in the fundraising calendar.

This time he delayed so long that some of the engages shouted frantically, but they held their fire.

Fuzzy caterpillars, snails with their sensitive horns, struggling grasshoppers held by their long hind legs and commanded to `` spit tobacco, spit ''.

Moineau and David held nothing but their fingers.

Arlen is one of the few ( possibly the only ) composer Mercer has been able to work with so closely, for they held their meetings in Arlen's study.

And as the Pilgrims bowed their heads in humble gratitude, they shared another feeling -- the anticipation of what the future held for them and their posterity.

Some families already have held weekend rehearsals in their home shelters to learn the problems and to determine for themselves what supplies they would need.

There we held `` that the statutory scheme for review, within the selective service system, entitles [ conscientious objectors ] to no guarantee that the FBI reports must be produced for their inspection ''.

Tribal authorities, the chiefs and their secretaries, were held responsible for maintaining the registers of indigenous persons within their territories, under the general supervision of district officials.

Albert B. Lord suggests that the Homeric poems were dictated to a scribe by a minstrel who held in his mind the poems fully matured but did not himself possess the knowledge of writing since it would be useless to his guild, and Magoun argues that the Beowulf poet and Cynewulf may have dictated their verse in the same fashion.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

But today many of those men are reaching retirement age and suddenly realizing that they face an estate tax problem with their closely held companies and also that they have no second-echelon management in their firms.

My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them.

They came out and held their games and races.

It was they who held the future in their hands.

The medieval parish church of Gunsbach was shared by the Protestant and Catholic congregations, which held their prayers in different areas at different times on Sundays.

Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were amateur scientists who never held a position in their field of study.

Replicas of the urn are often held aloft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series, but the actual urn has never been presented or displayed as a trophy in this way.

As they held the Ashes, Australian captains Bob Simpson and Bill Lawry were happy to adopt safety-first tactics and their strategy of sedate batting saw many draws.

early suggested to the emperors and kings the expedient of rewarding their warriors with rich abbeys held in commendam.

" This title hails back to England's separation from the See of Rome, when King Henry, as supreme head of the newly independent church, took over all of the monasteries, mainly for their possessions, except for St. Benet, which he spared because the abbot and his monks possessed no wealth, and lived like simple beggars, disposing the incumbent Bishop of Norwich and seating the abbot in his place, thus the dual title still held to this day.