Local teacher’s marathon effort to fund breast cancer research
Press Release For immediate release: 8 March 2010 Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign, DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org Local teacher’s marathon effort to fund breast cancer research Budding runner Philip Walter from Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire has pulled on his running shoes to train for the Virgin London Marathon in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign. The Behaviour Mentor at Monks Dyke Technology College, Louth will join thousands of runners at the starting line on Sunday 25 April after his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996. Following treatment she has thankfully now made a full recovery. Philip said: “After my wife’s diagnosis and seeing the effect it had on our family, I feel that I should, in the only way I can, put on my marathon shoes and raise some money to support the work being done to reduce the trauma caused by breast cancer for future generations, so they don’t have to experience the consequences as we have had to. Staff and pupils at Philip’s school have pledged to sponsor and support him with a variety of fund raising activities. If you would like to help Philip reach his fundraising target of £1,500 visit www.justgiving,com/Phil-Walter and donate what you can. If you have a place in this year’s Virgin London Marathon and would like to join Philip on Campaign’s running team, please call the Events team on 0207 749 3700 or visit www.breastcancercampaign.org. As a Campaign runner you will automatically become a member of Linford’s All Stars – a new exclusive club captained by Linford Christie, who offers supporters helpful training tips and nutritional advice. Ends Picture caption: Philip Walter 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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