Local runner joins the race to beat breast cancer

Press Release For immediate release: 29 March 2010 Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign, DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org Local runner joins the race to beat breast cancer Budding runner Rachel O’Connor from Witham, Essex, has laced up her running shoes to train for the Virgin London Marathon in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign. The IT Trainer at Essex Police College will join thousands of runners at the starting line on Sunday 25 April to support her colleague and close friend Kirste Snellgrove who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 aged 35. Rachel said: “I was lucky enough to get a ballot place for the marathon and really want to run for Breast Cancer Campaign as they are funding a drug that is helping Kirste. We’ll be running together, as Kirste is an avid runner, and together we’re hoping to raise lots of money for a cause close to our hearts. Kirste is an absolute inspiration and we are both very excited about the Marathon.” To sponsor Rachel, please visit www.justgiving.com/teamsnellgrove and donate what you can. If you have a place in this year’s Virgin London Marathon and would like to join Rachel on Campaign’s running team, please call the Events team on 0207 749 3700 or visit www.breastcancercampaign.org. 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: Kirste Snellgrove and Rachel O’Connor 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 117 research projects, worth over £17.3 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/ • Breast Cancer Campaign is campaigning for all candidates standing for election to Westminster to sign up to the breast cancer research pledge: www.breastcancercampaign.org/election

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