Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.  I am running the Royal Parks Half Marathon to raise money for Bowel Cancer UK and to support a young mum in my daughter's class who has recently been diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer.

Here are some facts about bowel cancer:

• Bowel cancer is the second biggest cancer killer in the UK  
  
• Every 15 minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with bowel cancer
• More than 41,000 are diagnosed each year
• More than 2,540 people under 50 are diagnosed in the UK each year
• One in 14 men and one in 19 women will be diagnosed in their lifetime
• Around 290,000 people living in the UK today have been diagnosed with the disease
• 15,900 people lose their life to bowel cancer each year – that’s 44 people each day
• Every 30 minutes, someone in the UK dies from the disease
• More than nine out of 10 people diagnosed with stage 1 bowel cancer survive five years or more
• For stage 2 bowel cancer that figure is eight in 10
• For stage 3 six out of 10
• And for stage 4 less than one in 10 people survive five years or more

Source: Bowel Cancer UK

Money raised for Bowel Cancer UK will be used in the following ways:

1. To support and influence research
2. To educate patients, the public and professionals about bowel cancer by providing expert information and training. 
3. To campaign for early diagnosis and access to best treatment and care across the UK

Thanks for taking the time to read this.  Any support you can give is hugely appreciated.  

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