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Last year I ran for Parkinson’s. This year I am running for Breast Cancer Now. Because I want to help those who need it.

80% of new breast cancer diagnoses are in women over 50 years of age. Around one man a day is diagnosed with breast cancer. There are around 56,000 new cases of breast cancer every year: that’s over 150 cases every day. In 2019, there were 25,100 men diagnosed with breast cancer and 12,100 deaths globally.

I’ve seen the effect of being diagnosed with cancer and what it can do. From being told you have breast cancer and changing your life  to the friends and families that become your support system and their lives it changes too. 

Everyone goes through soo much during that time. I want to raise money to help support everyone that is involved. Let’s help get a better and stronger support team together to help with digest and accept the news that you or mum or sister or brother or even your friend has cancer, to hold your hand through your first lot of treatment. To guide you through the scans that are required.  To be the answer book that we require. To help the families who become careers. To offer the support to them, make sure they have everything they need. 

I know there’s a brilliant team already that help with breast cancer but let’s raise money that team can strive to be better for those who need them to be. 

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer with a lifetime risk for women of 1 in 7. Around 390 men are diagnosed with invasive breast cancer each year. Almost 1000 people a month lose their lives to breast cancer.

Let’s help change that..Donate now to make difference. 

£10 could buy essential lab equipment for our researchers. This could be tubes for freezing cells for future experiments, or bags of test tubes and flasks for growing the cancer cells that our scientists will experiment on.

£30 could buy enough of our specialist nurses’ time to give a person with breast cancer the support they need through our Helpline, or one hour of our cutting-edge breast cancer research.

£50 could buy 500 leaflets to doctor’s surgeries in the UK to promote breast checking, and inform about the signs and symptoms of breast cancer.