Ruth Thurston
Create A Storm on Pink & Blue Monday
Fundraising for University of East Anglia
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Thanks for taking the time to visit the Think Pink & Blue UEA JustGiving page.
Monday 15th January 2018 will be Blue Monday but NOT THIS TIME!
We are asking you to ‘ditch the dreary’ and embrace PINK & BLUE MONDAY.
Dress up in vibrant Pink and Blue to show your support for local ovarian and prostate cancer research.
Less a ‘dress down’ day - much more a ‘dress up’ occasion - a fun and visible way to raise funds and awareness for a serious cause. From pink hats to blue suede shoes (and why not throw in some balloons or bunting?) we are asking individuals, friends, offices and organisations each to donate £2.00 per person to Think Pink & Blue.
You can also
Help us create a Pink & Blue Storm
Simply dress in either pink or blue and meet us on Monday 15th January at 12.30 The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF.
Come along with a crowd dressed in pink and/or blue and Create A Storm at The Forum! Meet us at 12.30 for a 12.45 photoshoot, we aim to produce our pink and blue logo (2 merging circles) in human form to show your support and create awareness of these 2 devastating cancers. Please then post images on social media using our hashtag #pinkandblue.
To pledge your support please go to our website at www.thinkpinkandblue.co.uk.
We have produced a JustTextGiving code to make it easy for you to donate.
Simply text TPBO81 with the amount you would like to donate (£2 is our suggested amount) to 70070.
You can donate £1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10 by text, for any other amount you'll need to give online.
Within 24 hours you'll receive confirmation by text to let you know the donation has been successful.
Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving - they'll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to the charity. So it's the most efficient way to donate - saving time and cutting costs for the charity.
Prostate Cancer Research led by Professor Colin Cooper
Prostate cancer is distressingly common (diagnosed in 12% of men) and often fatal (9% of male cancer deaths). Prostate cancer has overtaken lung cancer to become the most common male cancer in the UK with 35,000 cases diagnosed each year and around 11,000 deaths.
More than half of all men over 50yrs are thought to have cancer cells in their prostate, but only about 10% of those cells will ever become life-threatening. So for the majority of patients the cancer cells will never cause any symptoms – these are the ‘pussycat’ cancers. The cancers that progress and become life threatening are the ‘tiger’ cancers.
This is a major problem for doctors and patients because, at the moment, there is no reliable test to distinguish between the pussycats and the tigers. Improved bio markers are therefore needed to develop a test which will allow radical therapies and treatments to be targeted to men with aggressive cancers, and for those with pussycat cancers to be spared the side-effects of treatment.
To develop this test, Professor Cooper and his team are looking for common characteristics and signs in urine samples from 600 men being treated for prostate cancer at the hospital. Identifying this set of common characteristics (or biomarkers) and developing a reliable “pussycat or tiger” test would radically change the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer for patients.
UEA, we can use Big Data analysis and supercomputers to identify common characteristics and new possibilities. This is an exciting period of rapid progress driven by new technology. However, progress is only possible with the right tools, along with the expert staff to use them.
UEA has charitable status (reference XN 423), which allows us to benefit from Gift Aid, the Government scheme to support charities.
Making a donation to support Prostate Cancer Research at UEA
Your donation will be used to fund Professor Colin Cooper’s work to develop a prostate cancer test which will enable doctors to distinguish between the pussycat and tiger cancer cells.
UEA has charitable status (reference XN 423), which allows us to benefit from Gift Aid, the Government scheme to support charities.