Throughout August Bad Wolf, Screen Alliance Wales and IJPR are raising money for The Breast Centre at University Hospital Llandough where our friend and colleague Allison will be receiving treatment for breast cancer. To support Allison as she begins her treatment Bad Wolf, SAW and IJPR are embarking on a 100 kilometre challenge to complete in August. Each participant will have to clock up 100 km by the end of the month whether it’s running, walking, swimming etc.

The Breast Centre treats between 450 and 500 new breast cancer patients every year and serves patients from the whole of Wales and the surrounding areas. At a time when patients may be very anxious they tell the Breast Cancer Centre it makes a huge difference to them to have a streamlined service with everything under one roof.

The Breast Centre Appeal raised the money to build the Centre in 2010, which is designed around the needs of its patients and houses out-patient clinics and diagnostic radiology services together. Patients can have a mammogram or ultrasound and get their results on the same day; if further investigations are needed these can also be carried out at the Centre.

Donations to the Breast Centre Appeal are used to provide special bras for mastectomy and reconstruction patients and offer complementary therapies & confidence sessions. Donations have also provided a physiotherapist for one on one sessions as an exercise prescription service, the first of its kind in Wales, and a gym for its patients having surgery for breast cancer.

Bad Wolf, Screen Alliance Wales, IJPR and of course Allison thank you for your support.