I'm part of Team AllTogether, Alltogether are a group taking part in this years Race For Life @ Royal Windsor RaceCourse the members of the team so far are my mum, my daughter & a family friend.We are hoping more people will join our team.

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. Why Donations Matter So Much
Every two minutes someone in the UK is told they have Cancer.
Today,twice as many people survive Cancer as they did forty years ago.
Thats twice as many mums and dads who get to see their kids grow up.
Twice as many couples who have a chance to grow old together.
Twice as many children with the chance of a healthy future .
And thats ALL down to people that take part in Race For Life,
But more importantly its down to the people who are kind enough to sponsor us.
The money you donate will help Cancer Research make great breakthoughs.
It will help fund World-leading scientific Research that will result in more effective treatments.
Treatments that are more likely to work and have fewer side effects.

THATS WHY YOUR DONATIONS ARE SO VITAL.

Things your donations buy:
1pound = will buy 11 'cryotubes' designed to help scientists store precious samples at chilled tempertatures.
5pound = will buy 150 glass slides that scientists can use to study cells and tumour samples under microscope.
10pound = will buy 80 Petri dishes scientists use to grow cells in the lab, helping their groundbreaking work to understand Cancer.

Copied and pasted from Cancer Research site:

All about cancer

People often think of the word cancer as describing a single disease with a single cause, like 'flu or HIV. But this is misleading.

Cancer is the name given to a range of specific illnesses resulting from one of our body's own cells growing out of control. There are more than 200 different types of cancer, each with different causes and symptoms requiring different treatments.

In this section you can find out how cancer develops, how it is treated, and how we're tackling it through ground-breaking research. It is only through research that we can understand cancer and develop more effective ways to beat it.

In this section you can find out how cancer starts, how it grows and spreads, and why it makes people ill. And you can discover how Cancer Research UK scientists have transformed our understanding of the disease

What causes cancer?

There are many things that can cause cancer and many things that people wrongly believe cause the disease. And for many cancers, we simply dont know the cause.

The fundamental cause of cancer is damaged or faulty genes the instructions that tell our cells what to do. Genes are encoded within DNA, so anything that damages DNA can increase the risk of cancer. But a number of genes in the same cell need to be damaged before it becomes cancerous.

Most cancers are caused by DNA damage that accumulates over a person's lifetime. Cancers that are directly caused by specific genetic faults inherited from a parent are rare. But we all have subtle variations in our genes that may increase or decrease our risk of cancer by a small amount.

So cancer risk isn't all in the genes, and it's not all down to lifestyle - it's a combination of the two.

Age
Age is the single biggest risk factor for cancer the older you are, the more likely you are to develop cancer. Nearly two-thirds of all cases of cancer diagnosed in the UK occur in people over 65 years old. This is because the longer we live, the more cancer-causing faults we accumulate in our DNA.

It also explains why more people are getting cancer nowadays. Thanks to advances in public health and the prevention of infectious diseases, we live much longer, increasing our chances of picking up cancer-causing DNA faults.

Lifestyle

Up to half of all cancers could be prevented by changes to lifestyle, and there are many things we can do to try to reduce the risk of the disease.

These include giving up smoking, enjoying the sun safely, eating a healthy balanced diet, limiting alcohol, keeping physically active and sticking to a healthy bodyweight.