Chloe's London Marathon Page

London Marathon 2023 · 23 April 2023 ·
Once again, I’m braving the dark nights and early mornings, so that in April, I can go on a 26.2-mile jog with 38,000 other people. As I question my sanity, I remind myself why I’m doing all this again...
In 2015, my mother, Tina, died of breast cancer.
She spent 4 years fighting the disease. As I look back now, time was punctuated by little wins, but bigger losses. When she got the all-clear from her primary, and then when she called to tell me it had come back. When the cancer that had spread to her liver was shrinking, but it had already spread to her bones, and then her lungs. When I had to call an ambulance one rainy Sunday morning because the disease had reached her brain and caused a stroke. And when my sister and I held her hand the night she died...
One in seven women in the UK will develop breast cancer in their lifetime and around 55,000 women and 370 men are diagnosed every year. Whilst breast cancer survival is improving (and has actually doubled in the past 40 years due to improvements in treatment, earlier detection through screening, and faster diagnosis) there are still nearly 1,000 deaths each month.
Breast Cancer Now is the biggest breast cancer charity in the UK. I strongly believe that no one does more in terms of research, campaigning, and pushing through legislation, to help current (and future) breast cancer sufferers. Mum frequently visited the Breast Cancer Now website for information, and my sister and I both used it as a valuable resource when we didn't understand the technical terms.
Breast Cancer Now is working on research that will ensure that by 2050, no one else will die of breast cancer. Your hard-earned pennies will help find more ways to prevent, detect and treat the disease, so that we can move from a time when people fear breast cancer, to a generation where everybody lives.
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