Best -selling author’s marathon effort for breast cancer research

Press Release For immediate release: 14 February 2011 Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign, DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org Best-selling author’s marathon effort for breast cancer research Writer Tracy Chevalier, from Highgate North London, has laced up her running shoes to train for her first London Marathon in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign. The successful novelist, who wrote the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring, will join thousands of runners on the starting line on Sunday 17 April to support several friends who have been diagnosed with breast cancer in recent years. Tracy said: “At times I have felt helpless in the face of what they have gone through. I decided that running the London Marathon for Breast Cancer Campaign was one concrete way that I could help to raise money and awareness. I’ve never run a marathon before so it will be a big challenge but one that I’m ready for, if it helps others affected by breast cancer.” To help Tracy reach her target of £20,000 please visit www.virginmoneygiving.com/tracychevalier and donate what you can. In addition to her training Tracy is currently writing a new novel about an English Quaker woman who helps runaway slaves escape from Ohio to Canada in the 1840s, and is a judge for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction. For more information about Tracy and her work, please visit www.tchevalier.com If you have a guaranteed place in this year’s Virgin London Marathon and would like to join Tracy on Breast Cancer Campaign’s team, please call the events team on 0207 749 4114 or visit www.breastcancercampaign.org Ends Picture caption: Tracy Chevalier Notes to editors • Breast Cancer Campaign aims to beat breast cancer by funding innovative world-class research to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure • Currently it supports 84 research projects, worth over £15.9 million, in 31 centres of excellence across the UK and Ireland • Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and accounts for nearly one in three of all cancers in women • In the UK, nearly 48,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year - that’s 130 a day • Visit www.breastcancercampaign.org • Read Chief Executive Pamela Goldberg’s blog http://pamelagoldbergblog.blogspot.com/

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