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How is it going for anyone taking up this challenge - you can run a 10k or 5k in either March or April to raise funds and awareness for Sir Bobby Robson Foundation - wear your Boro shirt or a Sir Bobby vest and then show how the fight agauinst cancer cuts across our football rivalries and brings us all out running on the streets. You raise a minimum £50 for the charity in the process.
Am doing my 10km run at the weekend. But here the Foundation are showing us what the fundraising is helping to achieve, at a time when funds have been badly hit during the pandemic.
The pandemic has also created significant challenges for cancer treatment. Despite these, vital trials of new drugs in adults have continued uninterrupted at the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre, Northern Centre for Cancer Care (Freeman Hospital), where we fund a specialist clinical trials doctor and nurse thanks to your support.
Trials of new treatments have also continued for children with cancer at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle, where we fund four clinical research and treatment roles within the Innovative Therapies for Children with Cancer Unit.
This team is led by Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Dr Quentin Campbell-Hewson, who says: “It’s hard to overstate the importance of clinical trials for young cancer patients. We meet with children and young adults with cancer every day and we know what these new treatments mean to them.”
Rebecca Henderson is 15-years-old and has been receiving cancer treatment for the last seven years.
Rebecca says: “During different treatments for my cancer, I’ve taken part in eight research trials. Most trials have been easy but some have been difficult. One trial I did tested an anti-sickness drug on children. It really helped me and now children all over the world can use it, too.”
By doing Sir Bobby’s Football Run, your support for our Foundation is directly benefitting patients like Rebecca. You’re also helping us play a significant role within international efforts against cancer and we’re very grateful.
As you know, we ask all participants to aim to raise £50 and, as part of your registration process, you’ll have been given the option to automatically create your own fundraising page. If you do need a hard copy of a sponsorship form, there is one attached here for your use.
Remember, once you’ve completed your Football Run (either 10km or 5km), please send a screenshot of it to us at nuth.charity@nhs.net from Strava, MapMyRun or whichever app you prefer to use, and we’ll send you your certificate and a Sir Bobby Robson Foundation pin badge.
If you’ve requested a running vest, then you’ll either have received it or we’ll be sending it out shortly. Or you may have decided to wear your favourite football shirt and we’re really enjoying seeing the pictures of runners in their club colours on Twitter and Facebook.
Thank you once again for taking part in Sir Bobby’s Football Run. With every step taken and every penny donated, you are helping us find more effective ways to detect and treat cancer.
We hope you feel proud of yourself. We know Sir Bobby would be.
Do you know someone who was inspired by your efforts? Or who might enjoy taking part? Please let them know that Sir Bobby’s Football Run has gone into extra time! There is still time to take part and the final whistle won’t blow until the end of April. Please forward this email and they can register here: Sir Bobby's Football Run
Am doing my 10km run at the weekend. But here the Foundation are showing us what the fundraising is helping to achieve, at a time when funds have been badly hit during the pandemic.
The pandemic has also created significant challenges for cancer treatment. Despite these, vital trials of new drugs in adults have continued uninterrupted at the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre, Northern Centre for Cancer Care (Freeman Hospital), where we fund a specialist clinical trials doctor and nurse thanks to your support.
Trials of new treatments have also continued for children with cancer at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle, where we fund four clinical research and treatment roles within the Innovative Therapies for Children with Cancer Unit.
This team is led by Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Dr Quentin Campbell-Hewson, who says: “It’s hard to overstate the importance of clinical trials for young cancer patients. We meet with children and young adults with cancer every day and we know what these new treatments mean to them.”
Rebecca Henderson is 15-years-old and has been receiving cancer treatment for the last seven years.
Rebecca says: “During different treatments for my cancer, I’ve taken part in eight research trials. Most trials have been easy but some have been difficult. One trial I did tested an anti-sickness drug on children. It really helped me and now children all over the world can use it, too.”
By doing Sir Bobby’s Football Run, your support for our Foundation is directly benefitting patients like Rebecca. You’re also helping us play a significant role within international efforts against cancer and we’re very grateful.
As you know, we ask all participants to aim to raise £50 and, as part of your registration process, you’ll have been given the option to automatically create your own fundraising page. If you do need a hard copy of a sponsorship form, there is one attached here for your use.
Remember, once you’ve completed your Football Run (either 10km or 5km), please send a screenshot of it to us at nuth.charity@nhs.net from Strava, MapMyRun or whichever app you prefer to use, and we’ll send you your certificate and a Sir Bobby Robson Foundation pin badge.
If you’ve requested a running vest, then you’ll either have received it or we’ll be sending it out shortly. Or you may have decided to wear your favourite football shirt and we’re really enjoying seeing the pictures of runners in their club colours on Twitter and Facebook.
Thank you once again for taking part in Sir Bobby’s Football Run. With every step taken and every penny donated, you are helping us find more effective ways to detect and treat cancer.
We hope you feel proud of yourself. We know Sir Bobby would be.
Do you know someone who was inspired by your efforts? Or who might enjoy taking part? Please let them know that Sir Bobby’s Football Run has gone into extra time! There is still time to take part and the final whistle won’t blow until the end of April. Please forward this email and they can register here: Sir Bobby's Football Run