Running to beat breast cancer will be music to your ears

Press Release For immediate release: 1 June 2010 Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign, DD 0207 749 4115, Email: press@breastcancercampaign.org Running to beat breast cancer will be music to your ears There is still time to join the race to beat breast cancer at this year’s Sony Ericsson Run to the Beat and Breast Cancer Campaign needs you on its wining team. The charity has 30 places available for the 13.1 mile race in Greenwich, London on Sunday 26 September, so if you can’t leave home without your ipod, this is the race for you. The whole course is set to music that has been scientifically proven to match the physical and mental demands of running a half marathon. Events Assistant, Julia Petrukhina, said: “In 2009 59 runners ran around the capital city for Breast Cancer Campaign while raising more than £15,000 to help us fund vital breast cancer research. So far we have 31 runners geared up to run for us and we’d love to make this year’s team the biggest yet, so please sign up and help us take a step closer to beating breast cancer.” Charity places must be filled by Thursday 1 July 2010 so if you would like to run for Campaign, please call 020 7749 3700 or visit www.breastcancercampaign.org Campaign is also encouraging runners with their own place to join their team. All runners who sign up will automatically become members of Campaign’s exclusive challenge club, Linford’s All Stars. Captained by Linford Christie the team receives unrivalled training tips from the Olympic runner, as well as helpful fundraising advice from the Events team. ENDS Picture caption: Breast Cancer Campaign runner at Run to the Beat 2009 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 113 research projects, worth over £17.1 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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