Local nurse’s race to beat breast cancer

Press Release For immediate release: 14 February 2011 Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign, DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org Local nurse’s race to beat breast cancer Local runner Chris Catchpole from Westerham, Kent has been pounding the pavements in training for the Bath Half Marathon in aid Breast Cancer Campaign. The registered nurse at The Princess Royal University Hospital and The Sloane Hospital will join thousands of runners on the starting line on Sunday 6 March after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2009. Following her diagnosis, Chris had a bilateral mastectomy and chemotherapy and is now doing well. She said: “I was diagnosed with breast cancer whilst living in America, but after treatment, my two sons and I moved back to England where I feel settled and I’m thrilled to run the Bath Half for Breast Cancer Campaign. The research they fund helps women like me so I hope lots of people will dig deep and sponsor me for this running challenge and help the charity take a step closer to beating breast cancer.” If you would like to help Chris reach her fundraising target of £1,000, please visit http://www.justgiving.com/Chris-Catchpole and donate what you can. This year around 48,000 people will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK and sadly approximately 12,000 will die from this disease. So if you have a guaranteed place in this year’s Bath Half Marathon and would like to make a difference to the lives of all those affected by breast cancer, please join Chris on Campaign’s team. For more information, please call the Events team on 0207 749 4114 or visit www.breastcancercampaign.org If you have your own place there is no minimum sponsorship amount and each runner who signs up will receive a fundraising pack including a Breast Cancer Campaign running vest, sponsorship forms and lots of support from the charity on the day. ENDS Picture caption: Chris Catchpole 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 84 research projects, worth over £15.9 million, in 31 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 48,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year - that’s 130 a day • Visit www.breastcancercampaign.org • Read Chief Executive Pamela Goldberg’s blog http://pamelagoldbergblog.blogspot.com/

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