Catherine Santamaria
Catherine's Race for Life
Total raised
£1,315.00
+ £235.00 Gift Aid
£25Kitting out our labs
£50Unravelling mysteries
£100Spotting cancer earlier
£150Making diagnosis kinder
£200Understanding errors in DNA
£300Finding cancer's weakness
£500Providing cancer support
£1,000Hunting innovations
Aylesbury 5k 2018
Sun 13 May 2018
For me, for my mother in law Sandra Santamaria, for all of us.
My Story
As you probably know, I underwent surgery and chemo in 2017 having been diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer aged 39. My mother in law Sandra was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer in Aug 2017 and passed away in March 2018, aged 73. Age doesn’t matter when it comes to cancer. The stat that 1 in 2 of us will get cancer seemed unbelievable last year; now it’s all too real for us. I know 5k isn’t much, but when I finished chemo in November 2017 it isn’t much of an exaggeration to say I was crawling around the house. I started the couch 2 5k programme in January and much to my own astonishment really enjoyed it and have carried on running. My aim is to run the course is under 40 minutes - not fast I know, but a big milestone for me. Thank you for reading - please donate if you can so the clever science people can carry on working out how to beat this disease as soon as possible.
CAUSE
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