In late August last year my mum got diagnosed with Stage 3 Ovarian Cancer, Although she is recovering she is still battling it today. I'd like to help anyone that has to face Ovarian Cancer and by doing this I am going to be completing the Royal Parks Half Marathon on October 8th to raise money for a charity called Ovarian Cancer Action. If anyone could donate or share this website and story around I would greatly appreciate it. 

What could your money buy?

• £4 could buy 10 scalpels
• £16 covers the cost of 20 microscope slides
• £30 will pay for us to extract DNA from a cancer sample 
• £50 will buy a bottle of serum that allows scientists to culture cancer cells in the lab
• £120 could buy a bottle of methanol, which fixes 100 tumour samples so that they don’t degrade
• £250 allows scientists to detect the number of copies of DNA in a tumour sample.
• £800 covers the cost of analysing DNA for BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations
• £1000 would allow researchers to count the number of cancer cells left in a sample after trialling new treatments
• £2400 could allow analysis of a cancer genome
• £30,000 will fund an MSC or PHD student, fostering the next generation of scientists

Thank you for anyone that has donated or shared, anything helps.

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