Having already raised an incredible £190k, funding our 3-year research project into pancreatic cancer at The University of Manchester, Team Jackie are now trying to raise another £150k to fund the next phase of research. £40k of this was raised through the fantastic efforts of the team at the Bath Half again this year, and with about 50 runners in Cardiff on 4th October we hope to raise another large chunk.
Jackie lost her fight against pancreatic cancer on 19th July 2012, aged just 46. With the help of so many wonderful friends and family, she fought this dreadful disease with courage, dignity and determination. Qualities that those who knew her would recognise only too well.We have chosen to support The Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund. Pancreatic cancer is known as the silent killer. By the time it is diagnosed it is usually too late and 90% of people will be told that they are terminally ill and given 6-12 months to live. It has the worst survival rate of any common cancer – only 3 in every 100 people diagnosed will live for 5 years and this figure has not improved in 40 years. Pancreatic cancer is the UK’s 5th biggest cancer killer yet receives only 1% of overall research funding. With a higher profile we hope that more attention and funding will be allocated to this disease. There has been an almost criminal lack of progress on pancreatic cancer and having seen this wonderful person suffer so, it is time to change this. With recent developments in genetics and immunotherapy, it feels at last that significant progress is within our grasp against this terrible disease.
