Local’s engineer’s race to beat breast cancer
Press Release For immediate release: 1 March 2010 Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign, DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org Local’s engineer’s race to beat breast cancer Budding runner Christopher Hillman from Old Basing, Hampshire has been pounding the pavements in training for the Bath Half Marathon for Breast Cancer Campaign. Christopher will join thousands of runners on the starting line on Sunday 7 March to support his mother Anne who is currently receiving treatment for breast cancer. He said: “My mum was diagnosed 18 months ago and has since had chemotherapy and a mastectomy. I want to run this race for her and raise as much money as I can to help the charity find a cure one day.” Christopher is planning to run the race in fancy dress and is aiming to raise as much money as possible. If you would like to help him reach his fundraising target, please visit http://www.justgiving.com/Chris-Hillman0 and donate what you can. The money Christopher raises will help Campaign fund innovative world-class breast cancer research throughout the UK and Ireland. If you have a place in this year’s Bath Half Marathon and would like to join Christopher 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 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 106 research projects, worth over £16.5 million, in 41 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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