Sir Alex Ferguson backs cancer research; makes a donation of £250,000

Sir Alex Ferguson posing with Tom Buckley, a fan diagnosed with cancer in 2009.

Sir Alex Ferguson may have retired from management, but the fighter inside him hasn’t retired yet as he fights the biggest battle for mankind, the fight against Cancer.

Ferguson was one of the secret funders to a research undertaken on a drug which is said to one of the biggest medical breakthrough in decades for treating cancer, revealed Daily Mirror reporter Ben Rossington.

According to Rossington, the former Manchester United manager has made a donation of £250,000 to a research study on cancer conducted by Professor Agamemnon Epenetos, a practising Oncologist and Cancer Researcher in London.

Epenetos had earlier unveiled his work on cancer last month in trails which shows that his drug, a genetically engineered protein called TR4 was successful in eliminating cancer cells from human bowels.

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“I remember being told my parents had lung cancer,” said Ferguson who had lost both of his parents to lung cancer. “It’s one of the scariest things you’ll ever hear.”

Ferguson’s dad Alexander had given up to the disease aged 66 in 1979, while his mother Elizabeth succumed to cancer in 1986 while she was 64.

“But things are different now. These days, lung cancer doesn’t have to be a death sentence. And finding it early could save your life,” he added.

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— Manchester News MEN (@MENnewsdesk) April 13, 2014