Team Jackie will be back at Bath for the 5th year but this is my first time!  I've never run anything near this far before, but now I'm old enough, sadly I have no more excuses!   Team Jackie has now raised a mind-blowing £249k and are surely going to smash £0.25 million on 12th March!  So if you might look to sponsor me, however much or little you can afford, then I would be incredibly grateful.  And all that pain will have some meaning!

Pancreatic cancer is known as the silent killer. By the time it is diagnosed it is usually too late. It has the worst survival rate of any common cancer – only 3 in every 100 people diagnosed will live for 5 years. This figure has not improved in 40 years and now has the lowest survival rate of any cancer. This cancer is so aggressive, by the time it’s diagnosed, 90% of people will be told that they are terminally ill and given 6-12 months to live. Pancreatic cancer is the UK’s 5th biggest cancer killer yet receives only than 1% overall research funding. With a higher profile we hope that more attention and funding will be allocated to this disease. There has been an almost criminal lack of progress on pancreatic cancer and having seen this wonderful person suffer so, it is time to change this.

With recent developments in genetics and immunotherapy, it feels at last that significant progress is within our grasp against this terrible disease.