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I am taking the challenge to run the Athens Marathon with the support of my family and friends to make a contribution to research for Urological Cancers so that we can develop better treatments and improve the lives of patients. 

Making the decision to run the Athens Marathon required a lot of inspiration from my daily encounter with patients at work who face the real physical and emotional challenges as part of their diagnosis and treatment.

"The story of cancer is not the story of doctors who struggle and survive, moving from one institution to another. It is the story of patients who struggle and survive, moving from one embankment of illness to another. Resilience, inventiveness, and survivorship - qualities often ascribed to great physicians - are reflected qualities, emanating first from those who struggle with illness and only then mirrored by those who treat them. If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

                                                    From the Emperor of all Maladies"

The money I will collect will be donated to "Together we can", the fundraising partnership of Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital.

Myria