# Dangoor family donates £1.1 million to Cancer Research UK

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/08/02/dangoor-family-donates-11m-cancer-research-uk/
- Published: 2010-08-02T11:13:14+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Dr Naim Dangoor OBE has donated £1.1 million to support the ‘About Cancer’ section
on Cancer Research UK’s CancerHelp UK website over the next five years, in honour
of his late wife Renée Dangoor, who died from breast cancer in 2008.

Now the head of a successful property portfolio, the 95-year-old Jewish Iraqi originally
came to London to study engineering 75 years ago. After building a successful business
empire in his homeland, Dr Dangoor and his wife Renée, crowned Miss Baghdad in 1947,
were forced to flee in the 1960s due to anti-Semitic persecution and returned to
the UK with nothing.

Since then, Dr Dangoor and his family have made numerous charitable donations through
The Exilarch’s Foundation, as a way of thanking the country that gave Dr Dangoor
refuge.

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The ‘About Cancer’ section of Cancer Help UK includes over 4,500 pages of information
and covers everything someone with cancer and their family needs to know about the
disease. Over 2,800,000 pages of Cancer Help are viewed each month.

Dr Dangoor said: “We understand all too well how being diagnosed with cancer can
affect a person and their family. Having access to a source of up to date information
that is clear and concise can be an invaluable support at a really difficult time.
To be able to help people who are going through the same thing we did is the best
way I can think of to honour my late wife’s memory.”

www.cancerresearchuk.org

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