Join the Great South race to beat breast cancer

Press Release For immediate release: 5 July 2010 Press contact: Breast Cancer Campaign Press Office DD: 0207 749 4115, Email: press@breastcancercampaign.org Join the Great South race to beat breast cancer Breast Cancer Campaign is urging all runners to make the most of the light summer evenings and start training for October’s Bupa Great South Run while raising money for breast cancer research. In 2009, Campaign’s running team raised an impressive £11,000 and with 15 places available on the team for this year’s run in Southsea, Portsmouth on Sunday 24 October, now is the perfect time to join the race to beat breast cancer. Julia Petrukhina, Events Assistant for Breast Cancer Campaign, said: “Each year 46,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK, so we need your support more than ever. By taking part in the Bupa Great South Run you will be helping us to fund innovative world-class breast cancer research, so please sign up and support our mission to beat this disease.” All runners who sign up for the 10 mile race 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. If you would like to run for research at this year’s Great South Run, call the Events team on 0207 749 3700 or visit www.breastcancercampaign.org 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 112 research projects, worth over £16.9 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/

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