Summary
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month - an annual campaign to encourage everyone to help raise funds for Cancer Research UK's life- saving work and make women aware of what they can do to reduce their risk of the disease. It also seeks to highlight the help and support available to women who have been diagnosed and the work local charities do to help. In Exeter help is available through the Force Cancer Support Centre, as Sue Kemp discovered WITHOUT the tireless efforts of volunteers and fundraisers, research, treatments, and services for women with breast cancer would be significantly reduced.
In Exeter, breast cancer sufferers and their carers have the Force Cancer Support Centre. More than 250 people walk through the doors of the centre, in the grounds of the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, each week.See the full content of this document
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Busy Team Supporting Sufferers
Over the past 23 years, Force and its supporters have raised more than Pounds 5 million. It costs the charity Pounds 1,000 a day to run its support services, which are fr...
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