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In January 2008 my best friend Deb Crisp, had just been diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Now in 2012 I can happily say that she has survived this tremendous ordeal and is fighting fit and looking forward to January 2013 when she will celebrate (with pink champagne no doubt) her fifth year, but it wasn't without the help of the Musgrove Park Hospital Breast Cancer Team.

Myself, my daughter Megan, Deb and various friends all aim to do our bit to try and raise the goal of £75,000.00 Please help us to raise the other £40,000.

Currently, ladies treated for breast cancer in Somerset would have an operation to take out a couple of lymph glands from their armpit as well as having the breast cancer removed at the same time. The lymph glands are examined under a microscope which currently takes 10 days. If those lymph glands don’t have any cancer cells in there is no need for a further operation; however, if the glands do have cancer cells in the lady needs to come back for a further operation to remove all the lymph glands 3-4 weeks later. Not only does this create a lot of anxiety waiting 10 days for the result but it delays further breast cancer treatment if needed.

A new system has been developed called OSNA which is a machine that looks at the DNA in the lymph glands during the first operation. This means that we can tell ladies who don’t have cancer cells in their lymph glands that they are fine at the end of the operation. It also means that we can remove all of the glands if we need to in the same operation which cuts down the time to any further treatment needed.

This machine costs £75,000 to buy and other donators have currently raised £35,000 towards it.

All your donations, no matter how small, will be very much appreciated.

Sunday 4th November - New York Marathon - THE BIG ONE!

A huge, huge THANK YOU!

Sarah x

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