Local family’s pink race to beat breast cancer

7/5/2010 3:00 AM EST

Press Release

For immediate release: 5 July 2010
Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign,
DD 0207 749 3724, Email:  


Local family’s pink race to beat breast cancer

Budding runner Nicola Wright and her parents John and Jen Jones from Baswich Lane in Stafford have pulled on their running shoes to train for the Bupa Great North Run in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign.

The trio will join 54,000 runners on the starting line for the 13.1 mile race in Newcastle on Sunday 19 September after Jen was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. Following chemo and radiotherapy she is making a good recovery.

Jen said: “After being diagnosed, I had to defer my place in the Great North Run, so I’m thrilled I’ll be able to take part this year with my family while running for a cause that’s close to my heart.”

Nicola added: “I’m so pleased that I’m able to run with my mum and dad and I’m so proud of Mum after everything she has been through. I hope lots more people will join Campaign’s team and raise vital funds to help the charity take a step closer to beating breast cancer.”

To help Nicola reach her fundraising target of £400 please visit www.justgiving.com/nicola-wright4 and donate what you can.

Last year 300 Campaign runners wore their pink running vests with pride and raised a whopping £160,000 for vital breast cancer research. So if you have your own place in this year’s race and would like to run for Breast Cancer Campaign, please call the events team on 020 7749 3700 or email  .

All runners who sign up with Campaign will automatically become a member of Linford’s All Stars – an exclusive club captained by Linford Christie, who offers supporters helpful training tips and nutritional advice. Runners will also receive a fundraising pack containing a Breast Cancer Campaign running vest and lots of fundraising ideas.

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Picture caption: Nicola Wright John and Jen Jones

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 112 research projects, worth over £16.9 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/