Local dance teacher joins the race to beat breast cancer

Press Release For immediate release: 1 February 2010 Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign, DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org Local dance teacher joins the race to beat breast cancer Budding runner Laura Polson from Bath has been pounding the pavements in training for the Bath Half Marathon for Breast Cancer Campaign. Laura will join thousands of runners on the starting line on Sunday 7 March after her grandmother and a few family friends had breast cancer. Laura said: “I have always run to keep fit but now I want to do this challenge to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research. Thanks to early detection, my nan and family friends are ok but there are many women who aren’t so fortunate. I want to run for all the 45,500 women that will sadly be diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK this year.” To help Laura reach her fundraising target of £200, please visit http://original.justgiving.com/laurapolson1 and donate what you can. The money Laura raises will help Campaign fund innovative world-class breast cancer research throughout the UK and Ireland. Breast Cancer Campaign has places available on its running team for the Bath Half Marathon, so if you would like to join Laura in the race to beat breast cancer, please call the Events team on 0207 749 3700 or visit www.breastcancercampaign.org. Closing date for entries is Friday 5 February 2010. As part of the team you will automatically become members of Linford’s All Stars – a new exclusive club captained by Linford Christie, who offers all his supporters helpful training tips and nutritional advice. ENDS Picture caption: Laura Polson 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 £16.8 million, in 42 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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