Monica Cannon

Team Gill

Fundraising for Bowel Cancer UK
£10,500
raised of £3,850 target
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Event: Simplyhealth Great North Run 2019, on 8 September 2019
In memory of Gillian Farrell
The world's biggest half marathon is back and over 200 amazing Team Bowel Cancer UK runners have come together with one aim - a future where nobody dies of bowel cancer.

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Here we go!!!! x

Yvonne Currie, Jacqueline Guest, Angela Lawson, Elaine Davies, Dawn Key,  Marie Dunsmuir,  Kirsty Moore, Lesley McIntosh, Fiona McGinness, Colette Dorman and Monica Cannon make up Team Gill. A few of Gillian Farrell’s friends and family who have decided, on the first anniversary of her death, to run the Great North Run in her memory.  Gill was a very keen runner and we think this would be a fitting way to celebrate her life and raise funds for a very important charity. Although Gill never wanted to be a ‘poster girl’ for cancer (her life was so much more than this horrible disease.) we think she would want to raise awareness and help those who find themselves in the same situation as she did. She would also, we think, chuckle at the thought of us all getting our training gear on!  (Some of us have more experience in this field than others...). We didn’t know much about Bowel Cancer before it touched our lives but it is actually the second biggest cancer killer in the UK. In addition it is not, as many people think, an old person’s disease. The number of younger people being diagnosed is increasing every year. It is also sometimes symptomless (as was the case with Gill) until it has reached an advanced stage. Gillian wasn’t old. She was fit and healthy. There is no genetic reason as to why she developed this cancer. Her oncologist simply described it as ‘bad luck’. That is not good enough. Hopefully more awareness and increased speed in diagnosis will help ensure fewer people suffer the same ‘bad luck’.  Bowel cancer UK is the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity and we would like to help. We hope you do too. Thanks in advance xxx

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The world's biggest half marathon is back and over 200 amazing Team Bowel Cancer UK runners have come together with one aim - a future where nobody dies of bowel cancer.

About the charity

Bowel Cancer UK

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We’re the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity. We’re determined to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer. Our vision is a future where nobody dies of the disease.

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