For immediate release Breast Cancer Campaign and John Healey MP ask you to ‘wear it pink®’
Local MP John Healey, is joining forces with Breast Cancer Campaign in its award winning ‘wear it pink’ day on Friday 27 October 2006 as part of breast cancer awareness month. By making a donation of just £2 you can dress as brightly as you like, as long as it’s pink. Your donation will allow Breast Cancer Campaign to continue researching the cure and help the one woman in nine in the UK that will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. It’s as simple as that. Last year our fun loving “pinkies” raised a staggering £1.69 million with our target £2.1 million this year. Mr Healey said: “Every year over 13,000 people in the UK die from breast cancer. Some of them will be from the Wentworth constituency and that is why I am supporting Breast Cancer Campaign’s ‘wear it pink’ day. Please encourage your family and friends to do the same and help raise money raised towards valuable breast cancer research.” Help us reach our target and take part in the UK’s original and best pink day. To register and to receive your free fundraising pack either call freephone 0800 1073104; or visit www.wearitpink.co.uk
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Notes to Editors:
1. Breast Cancer Campaign is the only charity that specialises in funding independent research into breast cancer throughout the UK. Our aim is to find the cure for breast cancer by funding research which looks at improving diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, better understanding how it develops and ultimately either curing the disease or preventing it.
2. Currently it supports 69 research projects, worth over £9 million in 47 centres of excellence across the UK.
3. For more information about Breast Cancer Campaign visit www.breastcancercampaign.org
4. For further information about wear it pink visit www.wearitpink.co.uk
5. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women
6. Breast cancer accounts for nearly one in three of all cancers in women
7. In the UK, every year over 41,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women. This works out as 3,400 new cases per month, nearly 800 per week and over 110 a day
Press contact: Claire Learner, Science Media Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign
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