Thank you for visiting my ‘Race for Life’ blog. I’m running the 5K race in Maidstone on Sunday 7th July 2013 and am hoping to raise lots of money for Cancer Research.
I have multiple reasons for taking part in this event. Cancers are nasty diseases which continue to take far too many of our loved ones. It has no sentiment and no conscience and strikes indiscriminately and without mercy. Research over the last 30-40 years has worked wonders, profiling specific cancers and finding new ways of targeting drugs and therapies against them which has saved countless lives and raised the survival rates in many of the more common cancers.
However there is still a long way to go as there are many cancers which are hard to detect and hard to treat. But research works! By funding research into different types of cancer we are making progress and it means that when the next person is diagnosed with the disease, there are new treatments and techniques available to help them survive.
Please help me raise lots of money for cancer research.
We need to find ways of combating oesophagus cancer, a cancer which recently took the life of Sandra, my sister-in-law. I am running the Race for Life to raise money to find new ways of treating and curing this nasty disease so that life expectancy and survival rates for oesophagus cancer sufferers is increased.
We need to find ways of combating brain cancer, a cancer which recently took the life of Len, my cousin’s father. I am running the Race for Life in the hope that in the future, when brain cancer is diagnosed, there are treatments which will treat and cure this nasty disease.
We need to find ways of combating cancer of the pancreas, a cancer which recently took the life of John, my friend. I am running the Race for Life so that detection of pancreatic cancer can be made much easier and that survival rates for this nasty cancer will improve dramatically.
I am running the Race for Life in memory of Sandra, Len and John as well as in honour of a number of other special people. Some of them are cancer survivors who have survived because of the work and money spent on cancer research, and some of them weren’t so lucky and I am running because although they are gone they are never forgotten. I will blog more about these people in time.
Please sponsor me at http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/onepint
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