This year I'm running the Nottingham Half Marathon. I'm running this year for a couple of reasons.  The first is that I've not been doing too much this year, so a bit of the middle age spread is creeping back, but the second reason is a bit more important.  This year my Mum has been battling with Cancer.  She discovered she had Lung Cancer by chance, early in January.  She's had a major operation and is now just entering her second bought of Chemotherapy.  Along the way she has been helped by some great people and it seems appropriate to pay something back.

Not that running is anything like Cancer, but through (admittedly only a little bit) a bit of discomfort if I can raise some money to help then perhaps it helps to move one step closer to a cure.

There is still lots of reseach to be done and new treatments to perfect, so if you can help that will be great.

Thanks if you have donated.

Gary 

If you wondering what the money could do, here's some figures:

Every pound makes a difference

Here are some examples how the money could be used:

• £15 could pay for a lab coat to protect a scientist from harmful chemicals, and their experiments from contamination.
• £182 could buy 1,500 plastic petri dishes. They're an essential resource for thousands of scientists who are working hard to understand cancer.
• £300 could enable one of our senior research nurses to treat and monitor a patient on a clinical trial for around two days.
• £528 could buy 20,000 glass slides for studying cells and tumour samples in detail under a microscope.
• £1,050 could fund around four microarrays - powerful pieces of gene technology that allow scientists to compare how active different genes are in cancer cells and healthy cells.  
• £5,800 could cover three week's running costs for a large-scale clinical trial testing whether a drug called celecoxib - similar to ibuprofen - can help to prevent bladder cancer from coming back after treatment. 
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