- The Brighton Marathon is a road race run over the distance of 42.195 km or 26 miles and 385 yards.
- It takes place each April in Brighton on the south coast of England.
- The inaugural Brighton Marathon was organised by former international athlete Tim Hutchings and former Brighton club athlete, Tom Naylor. The first running of the race took place on 18th April 2010.
- The race opened to 12,000 entries, with 7,589 participating on race day.
- The course start line was at Preston Park. The route took in some of the sights of central Brighton before heading East towards Rottingdean.
- The race then headed west out to and around Hove, before returning on the seafront and finishing on Madeira Drive, close to Brighton Pier.
- In Year 2 (April 2011), over 8,000 runners took part with spectator numbers estimated at around 120,000. The race has acquired the status of “Britain’s No. 2 marathon” for its profile in the national running arena, for its standard of race organisation and for the publicity generated by the event.
- The 2012 event has seen a 20% increase on entries to an acceptance of 18,000, putting it in the top 12 running events in the UK. In September 2011.
Teenage Cancer Trust
- Teenage Cancer Trust is a charity that focuses on the needs of teenagers and young adults with cancer, leukemia, Hodgkin’s and related diseases by providing specialist teenage units in NHS hospitals.
- The units are dedicated areas for teenage and young adult patients, who are involved in their concept and creation. Medical facilities on the units are colourful and vibrant environments, equipped with computers, TVs, game consoles – designed to be places where friends and family feel comfortable to visit.
- The charity has units in London, Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham, Sheffield, Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow, Southampton, Edinburgh Cardiff, Bristol, Cambridge, Hull, Leicester and Nottingham.
- The charity also serves as an advocate for teenage cancer needs, becoming instrumental in the establishment of related research and national and international forums.
- It also provides support services and education related to teen cancer.
Statistics
- Every day in the UK, seven young people aged 13 to 24 are told they have cancer. That’s about 2,100 young people a year.
- Cancer is the number one cause of non-accidental death in young adults in the UK.
- One in 312 males and one in 361 females will get cancer before they are 20.
- Boys up to the age of 15 have a one in 450 chance of developing cancer, rising to one in 208 by the time they reach 24. Girls up to the age of 15 have a one in 517 chance of developing cancer, rising to one in 239 by the time they reach 24.
- Different cancers predominate at different ages: leukaemia, lymphomas and brain tumours in 13 to 18 year-olds, and lymphomas, carcinomas (soft tissue cancers) and germ cell tumours (e.g. testicular cancer) in 19 to 24 year-olds.
- Incidence rates are now higher in 13 to 24 year-olds than in children, yet survival rates for this age group have not improved as much.
- In England, five year survival stats for teenage and young adults (TYA) are approximately 69% for males and 73% for females. However due to the spectrum of tumours arising in teenagers and young adults this varies from 89% for male germ cell tumours (e.g. testicular), to 42% for males with Leukemia and 46% for bone sarcoma.
- Young people get some of the most aggressive cancers. But because only 0.6% of all cancers occur in young people, they are often misdiagnosed initially. This decreases their chances of survival and can mean they are excluded from clinical trials.
- 61% of young people with cancer felt their diagnosis could have been made quicker. 21% of young patients reported that their GP’s did not refer them to a specialist at all, despite almost 59% presenting at least two of the most common cancer symptoms: pain, lump/swelling, tiredness, headache or drastic weight loss.
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