Local family’s angelic race to beat breast cancer

Press Release For immediate release: 23 August 2010 Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign, DD 0207 749 4115, Email: press@breastcancercampaign.org Local family’s angelic race to beat breast cancer Local runner Carol Collett from Erith, Kent will be pulling on her fairy wings and polishing her halo this summer to take part in the adidas Women’s 5K Challenge in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign. The Ledger Clerk will join her sister, Keeley Cox, and daughter, Natasha, on Campaign’s Guardian Angels running team for the race in London’s Hyde Park on Sunday 5 September to support Keeley who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. Carol said: “My family and I are all excited to take part in the 5k challenge and running for breast cancer research is a cause close to our hearts. We hope lots of people will sponsor us and help Campaign take a step closer to beating breast cancer.” Carol is hoping to raise several hundred pounds for her running challenge so if you would like to sponsor Carol, please visit www.breastcancercampaign.org/donations/online/ and donate what you can. Every day 125 people are diagnosed with breast cancer, so if you would like to join Carol and her family on the Guardian Angels team for Campaign, please contact the Running team on 020 7749 4114 or email womenschallenge@breastcancercampaign.org Ends Picture caption: Carol Collett 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 105 research projects, worth over £16.2 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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