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Wednesday, 21 September 2011 |
 James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart is joining forces with Breast Cancer Campaign to raise awareness of its award winning fundraising event, wear it pink day.
On Friday 28 October 2011 supporters in schools, colleges and businesses throughout the country are encouraged to don an item of pink in support of Campaign and each donate £2 to fund innovative world-class breast cancer research.
Last year hundreds of thousands people took part in wear it pink to help improve survival rates for the one in eight women who experience breast cancer during their lifetime.
James Dornan MSP says It is estimated that there are over 41,000 women and 150 men alive in Scotland who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. I know people who have lost friends and family members to the disease and would like to encourage everyone in my constituency of Glasgow Cathcart, and throughout the country, to support wear it pink on October 28, to raise valuable funds for breast cancer research.
To take part in the UKs original and best pink day visit www.wearitpink.co.uk and register to receive your free fundraising pack now. wear it pink is supported by Vanish, which has committed to raising an incredible £250,000 for the charity this year.
Notes:
- wear it pink takes place on Friday 28 October.
- Stacey Solomon and Sally Dynevor are celebrity wear it pink ambassadors.
- Breast
Cancer Campaign aims to beat breast cancer by funding innovative
world-class research to understand how breast cancer develops, leading
to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure.
- The charity currently funds 105 projects worth almost £17.5 million in 31 locations across the UK and Ireland.
- Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and accounts for nearly one in three of all cancers in women.
- In Scotland, around 4,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year.
- The
Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank, the UKs first ever national breast
cancer tissue bank is a unique collaboration with four leading research
institutions to create a vital resource of breast cancer tissue for
researchers across the UK and Ireland. Visit breastcancertissuebank.org
- Visit breastcancercampaign.org or follow us at twitter.com/bccampaign.
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