# Vicky Clement-Jones

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**Vicky Veronica Clement-Jones** (née Yip; 23 December 1948 – 30 July 1987)[1] was a [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong)-born English [physician](/source/Physician) and [medical researcher](/source/Medical_research). Her own diagnosis with [ovarian cancer](/source/Ovarian_cancer) led her to found the British Association for Cancer United Patients (BACUP) in 1984.

## Biography

Vicky Veronica Yip was born in 1948 in [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong) to [Teddy Yip](/source/Teddy_Yip_(businessman)), a Chinese businessman, and Susie Ho. In 1957, Yip and her four siblings moved with their mother to [East Grinstead](/source/East_Grinstead), [West Sussex](/source/West_Sussex).[1] She was educated at the Notre Dame Convent School in [Lingfield, Surrey](/source/Lingfield,_Surrey), and East Grinstead County Grammar School. She graduated from [Girton College, Cambridge](/source/Girton_College,_Cambridge), in 1971 with a first in medical science, archaeology and anthropology, and went on to study medicine at [St Thomas's Hospital Medical School](/source/St_Thomas's_Hospital_Medical_School).[2]

She married [Timothy Clement-Jones](/source/Timothy_Clement-Jones) in 1973 and graduated from St Thomas's with an [MB BCh](/source/MB_BCh) in 1974. After qualifying, she held house posts at St Thomas's and was eventually promoted to senior house physician in [neurology](/source/Neurology) and [thoracic medicine](/source/Thoracic_medicine). She was appointed a medical registrar at [St Bartholomew's Hospital](/source/St_Bartholomew's_Hospital) in 1976 and was awarded a bursary to research the [opioid peptides](/source/Opioid_peptide) involved in responses to pain. After designing a [radioimmunoassay](/source/Radioimmunoassay) for one of these peptides, her findings were published in *[Nature](/source/Nature_(journal))*.[1]

Clement-Jones was diagnosed with [ovarian cancer](/source/Ovarian_cancer) in 1982, at which point she said she "crossed the divide from doctor to patient".[3] This led her to establish the British Association for Cancer United Patients (BACUP), an organisation to provide information, advice and emotional support to cancer patients. BACUP was registered as a charity in 1984 and later became the largest organisation of its kind in the United Kingdom.[1][2] The name BACUP was changed to CancerBACUP in 1998 and to Cancerbackup in 2006, in an effort to more clearly define what the charity did.[4]

On 26 June 1987 she made an [extended appearance](/source/After_Dark_(TV_programme)#"Killing_With_Care?") on the British television discussion programme *[After Dark](/source/After_Dark_(TV_programme))*, discussing *"Killing With Care?"*. The following month, on 30 July, Clement-Jones died, aged 38, exactly five years from the day she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.[1][5]

## References

1. "Jones, Vicky Veronica Clement-". 57328.

1. Slevin, ML. ["Vicky Veronica Clement-Jones"](http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/893). *[Munk's Roll](/source/Munk's_Roll) Volume VIII*. Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 25 November 2017.

1. Clark, George Norman & Briggs, Asa (1964). [*A History of the Royal College of Physicians of London*](https://books.google.com/books?id=wpm8gmGt7Q4C&pg=PA1546). Clarendon Press for the Royal College of Physicians. p. 1546. ISBN 978-0-19-925334-0.

1. ["Find and update company information"](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02803321/filing-history). *GOV.UK*. 2024-12-17. Retrieved 2025-02-26.

1. ["The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"](https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-57328). *The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004-09-23. [doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57328](https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/57328)

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