Final countdown to run for research

8/31/2011 10:53 AM EST

Press Release

For immediate release: 30/8/2011

With only a few weeks to go until the BUPA Great North Run, Breast Cancer Campaign is calling for runners in the North East to join their team.

It’s not too late to join Breast Cancer Campaign’s team for the BUPA Great North Run. If you have a guaranteed place in the event, but haven’t decided on a charity to run for, Campaign needs you to run and raise money for vital breast cancer research.

Events Executive, Karen Lambert, said: “We’ve got a fantastic team of runners signed up to run for us this year, but we are still welcoming runners who have their own place in the event. At last year’s event 350 runners pulled on their pink Campaign vests and pounded the pavements to raise more than £160,000 to help us continue our mission to beat breast cancer and we hope that our runners will be just as successful this year.”

So if you would like to run for breast cancer research please call the events team on to 020 7749 4114 or email  

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Notes to editors
• The Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank, the UK’s first ever national breast cancer tissue bank is a unique collaboration with four leading research institutions to create a vital resource of breast cancer tissue for researchers across the UK and Ireland. Visit breastcancertissuebank.org
• 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
• The charity currently funds 95 projects worth almost £16.5 million in 31 locations 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, around 48,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year - that’s 130 a day
• Visit breastcancercampaign.org or follow us at twitter.com/bccampaign