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It is my intention to raise as much money as I possibly can for the Everyman Campaign - a charity whose aim it is to stamp out Male Testicular and Prostate Cancers.  To do this I have been successful in this year gaining a place in the 2011 Virgin London Marathon.

 

In the past 12-18 months I have run a bit, although very sporadically!! Current limit is about 10km of which my PB is just under an hour.  I have a sixteen week plan which I intend to follow rigidly and hopefully even build upon it even further.  My aim is to make it around the course as close to four hours as possible!!

Please help support this great cause.  Details about where your money will go and how it helps cancer research is given below:

Where The Money Goes

Our vision is that male cancers will no longer be a life sentence by reducing their incidence and improving diagnosis and treatments.

We rely on the generosity of our supporters to enable us to forge ahead with this vision.

Everyman is a campaign run by The Institute of Cancer Research - one of the most cost effective cancer research organisations in the world with over 90p in every £1 of our total income going straight into supporting our life-saving research.

What your money buys

As I’m sure you can imagine, running a laboratory is very expensive.  To run the Everyman Male Cancer Research Centre costs about £2 million a year.

Here is a short list of some of the items that are needed in the laboratories with their approximate costs: 

 

Fridges (for storing laboratory reagents)	£240 - £500
Electric Pippettes (for measuring and transferring small volumes of liquids)	£350 - £690
Microscopes (for examining samples)	£450 - £1,000
Computers starting at (essential to all labs)	£675
Centrifuges	£1,000 - £1,500
Analytical Balance (measures accurately very small amounts of chemical reagents)	£600-1000
PCR Machine (A machine that heats and cools on a cycle and allows scientists to amplify tiny amounts of DNA, essential for examining genes and gene defects)	£4000
Spectrophotometer  (Specialised equipment that measures the concentration of DNA)	£3,500 - £10,500
Incubators  (for cell culture)	£3,850 - £4,000
Ariol Wholeslide Scanner (Specialised equipment that allows scientists to examine tumour material rapidly and with a high level of accuracy.)	£125,000

 

 

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So please dig deep and donate now.