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Update: I have completed my run!! I came 202 and completed it in 1:23:20 so as expected I did not set any records but I did it! I thought of all the people who have donated money as I was running and you kept me going so thank you all very much. Alexander has also gone to Boston - he is having his first round of consultations on 08-July with treatment starting on 20-July so fingers crossed.

 

I am running to raise money for my brother - Alex Jones - for the treatment of his brain tumour.

Alex has a rare form of brain tumour - an astrocytoma of an unknown kind. His doctors have recommended he has Proton Beam Therapy to remove the tumour without causing collateral damage to the rest of his brain. However there are no facilities in the UK for provision of Proton Beam Therapy for anything other than eye tumours. This is despite the fact that about 1400 people a year in the UK would benefit from this type of treatment. The NHS currently fund about 40 people a year to go to centres around the world. Sadly Alex is not one of these 40 as his tumour is very rare and therefore does not meet the strict diagnostic criteria that they have to set.

He has been referred to The Cancer Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston which is one of the leading centres for Proton Beam Therapy. The cost of his treatment is likely to be about £150,000. As a family we are all putting in what we can but we need some help - so I am following in Alex's footsteps and taking up running (don't laugh) in the hope that you will sponsor me and we will raise enough to get him the treatment he so desperately needs. 

For more information please go to Alex's web site www.protonbeamalex.com. Brainstrust are supporting Alex's fund raising efforts and all money raised by my run will go to Alex's fund directly.

Thank you for your support.

Lucinda

Donation by Bradley Cooke 02/09/09  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

Sorry this comes so late. We hope all is ok and our love and thoughts are with you and your family. Aida, Stephen and Charlie xxxx Donation by Aida Kenny 24/08/09  

£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid

Better late than never! WELL done - you made it look easy! LoL James and Sasha xx Donation by Sasha Hardman 29/07/09  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

Congratulations on the run. All the best. Donation by Nancy Turner 19/07/09  

£50.00

Dear Lucinda Great to see you and the boys the other day. Well done on your run . I am so impressed. . All my love Sophie xx Donation by Sophie Quinlan 13/07/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Amazing achievement - well done Cinders Donation by Lucinda Peter Jack and Sophie xxx 11/07/09  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

Well done Donation by Vince Gallagher 09/07/09  

£50.00

Fantastic Lucinda - I hope you had a great run and that Alex receives his treatment soon - lots of love Deirbhle Donation by Deirbhle Mannion 07/07/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Better late than never! Well done you. Donation by Helen and Andre 07/07/09  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

Lucinda, you are amazing!! love & hugs to you all. Donation by Ali Ellershaw 07/07/09  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

Better late than never - better never late - I managed to donate just in time. Hope it all went well and good luck! Donation by Steve Whitaker 05/07/09  

Well done! xx Donation by Joanna Elding 05/07/09  

£20.00

Well done Cinders - you're a star xx Donation by Pippa Winter 03/07/09  

£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid

good luck. Donation by mariette du plessis 03/07/09  

Good luck for the run and hope Alex's treatment goes well. Donation by Minling Chen 03/07/09  

£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid

Good luck with the run!! Donation by Matthew Rush 03/07/09  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

Donation by Gwyn Burrows 01/07/09  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

This time next week it will all be over! When does the marathon training start. Good luck xx Donation by Jane Alderson 01/07/09  

£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid

Good luck with the run Donation by Karl , Jo and Charlotte 01/07/09  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

Every best wish to you and the family. Donation by Jerry 01/07/09  

Best of luck. Donation by patrick bartle 29/06/09  

£100.00

We're with Sophie L on this one - run like the wind - we know you can do it. Donation by Sophie, Charlotte and Roo x 29/06/09  

£10.00

good luck - we know you'll do brilliantly Donation by Charlie and Clo x 29/06/09  

£50.00

Donation by Charlotte Saynor 29/06/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good Luck and best wishes from the country bumpkins! Donation by Will Adams 28/06/09  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

Good luck with the run and I hope that everything goes OK for your brother. Donation by Gary Donaghy 26/06/09  

£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid

Good luck Lucinda! Donation by AP 26/06/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Just discovered eBay and so the proceeds of a clothes sale can go to this good cause instead. We've got to beat this disease! Good luck! Donation by Clare Nestor 26/06/09  

£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid

good luck! Donation by Ronald van der Heijden 26/06/09  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

Good Luck Lucinda, wishing you & Alex the very best. Donation by Samantha Scobie 26/06/09  

£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid
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