Can you do better than the North? Join the Great South Run to beat breast cancer

Press Release For immediate release: 16 September 2010 Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign, DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org Can you do better than the North? Join the Great South Run to beat breast cancer Breast Cancer Campaign is urging all runners in the South to lace up their running shoes and take on the Bupa Great South Run while supporting vital research into breast cancer. As 30,000 runners are set to speed off from the starting line at Sunday’s Great North Run the charity wants you to take up a similar challenge in the South and has places available on its running team for the 10 mile race in Portsmouth on Sunday 24 October. Julia Petrukhina, Events Assistant for Breast Cancer Campaign, said: “We’re delighted that so many supporters are running the Great North Run for us and now we’re hoping more runners in the South will join our team and continue the race to beat breast cancer. Last year our Great South team raised more than £11,000 so please sign up today and help us make a difference to the 46,000 people affected by this disease in the UK each year.” If you would like a place on Campaign’s team, Campaign please call the Events team on 0207 749 4114 or visit www.breastcancercampaign.org All runners who sign up will automatically become a member of the charity’s exclusive sporting team Linford’s All Stars. Captained by Olympic running champion, Linford Christie, the team receives helpful training advice from Linford along with a fundraising pack containing a Breast Cancer Campaign running vest and lots of fundraising ideas. ENDS Picture caption: Campaign runners at the Great South Run 2009 photo supplied courtesy of Great Run 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 104 research projects, worth over £16.1 million, in 38 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 46,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year - that’s 125 a day • Visit www.breastcancercampaign.org • Read Chief Executive Pamela Goldberg’s blog http://pamelagoldbergblog.blogspot.com/

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