Cancer centre offers support to sufferers

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The Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre, which has been supported by donations from Evening Standard readers, is based at Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith.

The building has been designed by Lord Rogers's firm, Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, with a brief to provide an aesthetically uplifting environment where sufferers can get help and support that goes beyond regular medical treatment.

The garden around the centre has been designed by Dan Pearson.

Staff will be able to give patients information about treatment and provide psychological and emotional support for them and their friends and families.

The Prime Minister's wife Sarah Brown, patron of Maggie's, said: "The opening of Maggie's in London will provide a fantastic service for anyone diagnosed with cancer in the capital."

The Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres are named after Maggie Keswick Jencks, who realised, while being treated for cancer herself, that there was a desperate need for more help for sufferers.

She died of breast cancer in her fifties in 1995, but the charity set up in her name has already opened five Maggie's centres in Scotland with plans for a string of others in England and Wales.

Her husband, Charles Jencks, was able to persuade Lord Rogers, a close family friend, to get involved in the project. The charity relies on voluntary donations and has managed - with the aid of an Evening Standard fundraising appeal - to raise £3.5 million to set up the London centre.