Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

In March 2012, at the age of 40, I was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer. I was shocked to be told I had a rare and very aggressive germ cell tumour, as I'd always been fit and healthy and had only recently started to feel unwell.

Thankfully after surgery and 4 very intensive cycles of chemo between March and June, I am now in remission. Research into germ cell tumours has led to a highly effective chemo treatment for my particular type of cancer, and without that research I would not be alive today.

Many other types of cancer do not yet have such high survival rates and unfortunately more than 1-in-3 of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives. A donation to Cancer Research will help to fund important scientific research and clinical trials for new drugs and treatments.

Please donate whatever you can - big or small - it's an extremely worthy cause.

More information on the night marathon is available on the link below. http://shine.cancerresearchuk.org/events/london-2012

Completing the marathon is partly a goal for my recovery (since there were times during treatment when I couldn't even walk the quarter-of-a-mile from our house to the train station, so being well enough to walk 26 miles will be a big achievement for me!), but it's mostly because we'd like to give something back as a thank-you for my recovery and to help more people beat cancer in the future. 

Overall this episode of my life has been an extremely positive and very humbling journey, and it's given me a deep appreciation for my life and what is really important to me. I give my whole-hearted thanks to all the staff at the London Bridge Hospital and Guys Hospital for taking such great care of me.

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