Leap into action for breast cancer research

Press release For immediate release: 17 January 2010 Press contact: Faye Golding, 020 7749 4122 fgolding@breastcancercampaign.org Leap into action for breast cancer research It’s a new year so it’s the perfect time for a new challenge and this year it’s all about the charity skydive! Breast Cancer Campaign is calling on all thrill-seekers to take part in a sponsored skydive to help raise vital funds for breast cancer research. This once in a lifetime experience will see you freefalling through the clouds from 10,000ft at a speed of 120mph, but it also gives you the chance to help the 45,500 women and 300 men that are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. So sign up now and help to make a difference. Jumps take place all year round at airfields across the UK. Solo jumps are available to satisfy all those with a daring streak, along with tandem jumps for anyone that’s not quite ready to go it alone. Sponsorship totals start at £360 but vary depending on which jump you choose. Kelly Walton, Breast Cancer Campaign’s Events Executive, said “By taking part in a sponsored skydive you’ll be signing up to a once in a lifetime experience. All the money raised from each jump goes towards funding innovative world-class research and we hope that this year we can get more people than ever to take the plunge and help us beat breast cancer.” If you would like to take part in a skydive for Breast Cancer Campaign, or for more information about any of the charity’s fundraising events, please call 020 7749 4114, email skydives@breastcancercampaign.org or visit www.breastcancercampaign.org ENDS 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 92 research projects, worth almost £16.6 million, in 34 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/ • Visit Breast Cancer Campaign on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/breastcancercampaign • Visit Breast Cancer Campaign on Twitter http://twitter.com/BCCampaign

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