Get on your marks to beat breast cancer
Press Release For immediate release: 17 May 2010 Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign, DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org Get on your marks to beat breast cancer Breast Cancer Campaign is urging all budding runners across the UK to lace up their trainers and join the ultimate Northern race to beat breast cancer at this year’s Bupa Great North Run. With summer just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to make the most of the lighter evenings and train for the 13.1 mile race in Newcastle on Sunday 19 September. On the day 54,000 runners will speed off from the starting line and Campaign needs you to run and raise money for vital breast cancer research. Events Executive, Karen Lambert, said: “At last year’s event over 300 runners wore their pink Campaign running vests with pride and raised more than £160,000 to help us continue our mission to beat breast cancer. This year we’re hoping more runners will join our team so please sign up and show your support for the 46,000 people who will sadly be diagnosed with this disease in the UK this year.” Campaign has 150 charity places available on its team so if you would like to run for research, or if you have your own place through the ballot and would like to run for Campaign, please call the events team on 020 7749 3700 or email greatnorthrun@breastcancercampaign.org the deadline for Campaign’s charity places is 9 July. All runners who sign up with Campaign will automatically become a member of Linford’s All Stars – a new exclusive club captained by Linford Christie, who offers supporters helpful training tips and nutritional advice. Runners will also receive a fundraising pack containing a Breast Cancer Campaign running vest and lots of fundraising ideas. ENDS Picture caption: Runner’s at Bupa Great North Run 2009 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 117 research projects, worth over £17.3 million, in 40 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/ • Breast Cancer Campaign is campaigning for all candidates standing for election to Westminster to sign up to the breast cancer research pledge: www.breastcancercampaign.org/election
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