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WALKERS COMPLETE 60KM BIRMINGHAM WALK
TO RAISE £1.3M FOR BREAST CANCER

The Aviva Weekend to Breakthrough Breast Cancer
* 60km* 23rd - 24th September* Birmingham

Battling aching feet, blisters and fatigue, around 600 walkers in The Aviva Weekend to Breakthrough Breast Cancer are now on the home stretch of the 60km hike around the streets and parks of Birmingham, raising £1.3million for Breakthrough Breast Cancer, the UK’s leading breast cancer charity, in the process...Read More

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Trio walk in memory of loved one

(As seen on bbc.co.uk)
By Heather, Val and Debbie, Walkers in the Aviva Weekend to Breakthrough Breast Cancer

Three Coventry women will be walking 60 km later this year to raise money in memory of a beloved friend and daughter.

Two years ago Valerie’s daughter Deb lost her three-year battle against breast cancer and died aged just 42. Her death has brought the three ladies together in their cause to walk the mammoth 60 km around Birmingham on Saturday, 23 September to Sunday, 24 September...Read More

Fundraisers Walk This Way
(as published 19 April in Birmingham Forward)

LORD Mayor, Cllr John Hood, is putting his best foot forward and asking Birmingham residents to pull on their trainers for charity this autumn.

The Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity is bringing its Aviva Weekend to Birmingham streets for the first time this year on 22-24 September with the cash raised going to help vital research and education work...Read More

OVER 2000 WALKERS RAISE £5.4 MILLION FOR BREAKTHROUGH BREAST CANCER IN ONE BOLD WEEKEND ADVENTURE

Plans unveiled for London and Birmingham 2006!
One Weekend * 60KM * 24-25th September * London

Over 2000 Walkers in the first ever Weekend To Breakthrough Breast Cancer completed an incredible 60 kilometre (nearly 40 miles) journey this weekend, through the streets of London, raising £5.1million for Breakthrough Breast Cancer, the UK’s leading breast cancer charity.

Actress Michelle Collins opened the event in Greenwich Park yesterday morning as thousands of women and men began their weekend walking adventure. Thirty -three kilometres later after passing landmarks such as Westminster, Hyde Park, St Paul’s Cathedral and Tower Bridge, Walkers spent the night camping in Finsbury Park...Read More

Scientists Discover Scaramanga Gene’s Bond With Breast Cancer

Breakthrough Breast Cancer today announce that UK scientists have discovered that a gene named after the James Bond villain Scaramanga can trigger the development of breasts. This has important implications for breast cancer, as reported in the journal Genes and Development.

During the development of an embryo, formation of organs is tightly controlled by specific genes. In the case of breasts, this process controls the development of two breasts in humans but this can go awry, resulting in fewer, extra or misplaced breasts or nipples. However, little has been known about this how this process is governed, until now...Read More