Breast Cancer Campaign: Step Up To Beat Breast Cancer This September

Main Category: Breast Cancer
Article Date: 18 Aug 2009 - 22:00 PDT

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It's back! The Shenley Park Friendship Walk is returning to Hertfordshire next month and Breast Cancer Campaign needs you to take part and put your best foot forward for breast cancer research.

At the last walk in June 2007, 75 people stepped up to beat breast cancer and this year, the walk is being organised by a new group of local ladies called 'Breast Friends'.

They said: "We wish to hold this walk in the local community to encourage more people to be breast aware and also to raise much needed funds to help Campaign continue funding vital breast cancer research."

Registration for the walk, which starts at 10am in Shenley Park, is £5 for adults and free for children under 16. The charity encourages men, women and children of all ages to take part and asks for each walker to raise sponsorship from friends and family. All walkers will receive a medal and refreshments at the end of the walk.

The money raised from this event will help Campaign continue funding innovative world-class research to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure.

For more information and to register for the walk, please visit here or call the Events team on 020 7749 3700

Notes

- Breast Cancer Campaign aims to beat breast cancer by funding innovative world-class research to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure

- Currently it supports 106 research projects, worth over £14.4 million, in 42 centres of excellence across the UK and Ireland

- Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and accounts for nearly one in three of all cancers in women

- In the UK, nearly 46,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year - that's 125 a day

- Visit http://www.breastcancercampaign.org

- Read Chief Executive Pamela Goldberg's blog http://pamelagoldbergblog.blogspot.com/

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Breast Cancer Campaign

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