Local runner’s pink race to beat breast cancer

7/5/2010 3:15 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 runner’s pink race to beat breast cancer

Budding runner Sarah Armstrong from Cramlington, Northumberland has pulled on her running shoes to train for the Bupa Great North Run in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign.

The Engagement Secretary at Newcastle University will join 54,000 runners on the starting line for the 13.1 mile race in Newcastle on Sunday 19 September to support her mother Carole who was diagnosed with breast cancer this year and also in memory of her fiancé’s mother who sadly passed away from the disease in 2007.

Sarah said: “My mum has been diagnosed with this disease and is undergoing treatment at the moment. She is only 52 and it was found during her first routine mammogram screening. Also, my fiancé Chris tragically lost his mum to breast cancer after battling it twice. Breast cancer is something that is very significant in our lives and I really wanted to do something to help with the research. I hope lots of people will sponsor me for my running challenge and help Breast Cancer Campaign take a step closer to beating this disease.”

To help Sarah reach her fundraising target of £400 please visit http://www.justgiving.com/Sarah-Armstrong0 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 the race and would like to join Sarah on Campaign’s team, 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: Sarah Armstrong

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/