On Sunday 6th May 2012 I will be taking part in the Grand East Anglian Run 10K Road Race in Kings Lynn for the second time but this year i have decided to do it for charity, The Mesothelioma Charitable Trust and also hope to beat my time from last year! 

I have chosen to support this charity to raise awareness of this disease and the dangers of asbestos and in memory of my dad William Henry Rondeau.

Just over 36 months ago i had never heard of Mesothelioma (mee so thee lee omah) let alone how to say it.  It is mainly a chest cancer that develops between 15 and 60 years after exposure to asbestos, it is a ticking time bomb.  Only 6 % of the UK population know what it is, yet this deadly cancer kills 1 person every 5 hours in the UK.  The rising number of deaths is linked to the use of asbestos in the building industry up until the mid 1980's and it can affect anyone it doesn't discriminate, even if you haven't worked with it, you may have been exposed through a secondary route and all it takes is one fibre inhaled.

For everyone concerned, the patient, family, friends and health care professionals is perhaps the most challenging of cancers, difficult to diagnose and treat, debilitating and incurable.

There has been very little research carried out how best to treat it, treatments do not offer a cure and survival is usually measured in months rather than years.

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