RACE for Life in Southampton is the largest single event of its kind in the country.
On Sunday July 13, thousands of women will gather to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
It will be a day of high emotion - loved ones remembered and survivors celebrated coming through the disease. There will be great sadness at the loss of so many and immense joy at what can be achieved when people unite for a common cause.
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Click here for some of the pictures from the 2008 Southampton Race for LifeSupernurse urges public to take part in Race for Life
SUPERNURSE Anne
Croudass knows more
than most how important
your Race for Life
sponsorship money is.
As Cancer Research UK's leading
research nurse, Anne sees
first hand how your money is
being used in the fight against
cancer.
Today she is urging the city's
women and girls to take part in
Race for Life on July
13. Anne and her team
of supernurses at
S o u t h a m p t o n
General Hospital
work with cancer
patients taking part
in medical trials.
The work they do is vital -
administering the pioneering
treatments scientists have developed.
It is all funded by donations
to Cancer Research UK.
Sadly, nearly half the women
who take part in Race for Life
each year fail to return their
sponsorship money.
Click here to watch the video
Anne fronted the Daily
Echo's Do It for Anne campaign
last year to raise awareness of
how the money raised in
Southampton is spent.
"We couldn't do it without the
people who take part in Race for
Life," she said. "It costs £2m a
year to fund Southampton's clinical
research centre so the
money you have raised is being
used right on our doorstep. It's
cutting-edge research from
working with cancer vaccines to
comparing different chemotherapy
regimes."
Thanks to
research like this
the average ten
year survival rate
for cancer has doubled
in the last 30
years and the overall
death rate has fallen by 12 per
cent in a decade.
"Even if it just
gives someone an
extra six weeks, it
could mean the
world to them," said
Anne. "They might
get to see someone
get married or reach
another special day."
Organisers hope that the 10,000
women taking part in the
Southampton race this year can
smash their £583,000 target.
Anne and her team will be
cheering them all on, handing
out goodie bags at the finish
line.
"It was fabulous to run the race
last year and wear the number
one shirt.
"This time around it will be
great to be supporting in a different
way.
"It's our way of saying thank
you to all those people who raise
money for us because we couldn't
do what we do without
them."
■ Enter the Southampton Race
now at raceforlife.org/southwest
or call 0871 641 2279
■ Read the latest Race for Life
news at dailyecho.co.uk's special Race for Life section.
5:50am Wednesday 4th June 2008
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