Josh’s big race to help beat breast cancer

Press Release

For immediate release: 9 March 2010
Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign,
DD 0207 749 3724, Email:  

Josh’s big race to help beat breast cancer

Budding runner Josh Serjent from Winterbourne Down, Bristol pounded the pavements on Sunday as he took on the Bath Bath Half Marathon for Breast Cancer Campaign.

The CAD Technician joined more than 10,000 runners for the 13.1 mile race to support his mother Louise who was successfully treated for breast cancer seven years ago. Josh was thrilled to finish the race in one hour and 53 minutes and has raised more than £500 to help fund vital breast cancer research.

He said: The race was very well organised and everyone was very friendly and helpful. The atmosphere was amazing, along with the great support from Campaign staff and the spectators really made a positive difference. Running for such a great cause spurs you on right to the end and gives you real determination to finish.”

If you would like to run a race for Breast Cancer Campaign, please call 0207 749 3700 or visit www.breastcancercampaign.org for more information about the running programme.

As part of the team you will automatically become members of Linford’s All Stars – a new exclusive club captained by Linford Christie, who offers all his supporters helpful training tips and nutritional advice.

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Notes to editors
• 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 117 research projects, worth over £17.3 million, in 40 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 www.breastcancercampaign.org
• Read Chief Executive Pamela Goldberg’s blog http://pamelagoldbergblog.blogspot.com/
• Breast Cancer Campaign is campaigning for all candidates standing for election to Westminster to sign up to the breast cancer research pledge: www.breastcancercampaign.org/election