Tracy's The Middle Half page
Participants: Angela Taylor, Tracy Mellor
Participants: Angela Taylor, Tracy Mellor
The Middle Half · 8 October 2016
Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.
My mum, Angela Taylor, has run 7 half marathons and is putting me to shame so this year I decided I would run it with her. She knows a young boy who has DMD and we would really appreciate your support in helping find a way to beat this illness.
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a stinker of a disease. It's the most common fatal genetic disorder to affect children around the world. If you've got it, you can't produce dystrophin, a protein you need to build up your muscles. As a result, every muscle in the body deteriorates. At the moment there is no cure.
The facts about Duchenne are inescapable:
One in 3,500 boys is born with it, and in the UK 2,500 kids has it at the moment. In the USA between 400-600 boys are born with it each year. You can have it, no matter where you are or what your ethnic background is. A third of all cases start in the womb, with no warning before the baby is born. Girls can also get Duchenne with around 1% of Duchenne births being female.
Although we know a lot about how Duchenne is caused, current treatments are pretty limited.
Please help us raise money to provide much needed funds to further the research into a cure.
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