Esther Whitten - London marathon
As many of you are already aware Esther Whitten, one of our Club Umpires, is going to run the London Marathon on 22nd April 2012, in support of Breast Cancer UK and in memory of Siobhan Pritchard. She is asking all club members to dig deep and sponsor her,
Esther has been sent a press release from the charity, celebrating a recent move forward for breast cancer research and she would like to share it with all Club members. As Esther said 'Its good to show my supporters what the charity does'.
Breast Cancer press release....Hi Everyone, I wanted to write to celebrate with you a wonderful and exciting day for Breast Cancer Campaign, and medical research as a whole - and that your support has helped make possible.
Today we launch the first national breast cancer tissue bank – a resource developed over the past five years by Breast Cancer Campaign, with the NHS, research institutions – and the brilliant scientists who work within them, and with patients who are the heart of everything we do here. Today the Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank opens its vaults of precious breast cancer tissue donated by patients, and collected by hospitals across the UK, to all researchers working to find a cure for breast cancer. This news is being released to the press later on today but as a valued supporter we wanted to make sure that you were amongst the first to know.
Scientists have been crying out for this resource for many years – a lack of tissue is the biggest barrier to making further progress in research to improve the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. The Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank will provide the materials researchers need to make such progress.
This is the day we take a big step towards curing breast cancer and I hope that knowing how your fundraising is making a difference will make it a bit easier when you’re out there pounding the streets.
I hope that you are as proud as I am of being part of this work. If you would like to find out more about the Tissue Bank please visit www.breastcancertissuebank.org
If you would like to sponsor Esther please go to www.justgiving.com/esther-whitten