INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY. Anyone Can Get Breast Cancer: Interview offers for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Interview offers for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

This October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and health charity Walk the Walk is raising awareness that Anyone Can Get Breast Cancer.  

• Each year around 11,500 women and 85 men die from breast cancer in the UK 
• There are 400 new cases of breast cancer in men
• 55,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the UK.
• This includes just over 10,000 women under the age of 50  
• 2,400 women are aged 39 or under when diagnosed

Interview offers
The following case studies are available for interview, as well as Walk the Walk’s Founder and Chief Executive Nina Barough, who has had breast cancer herself.

Young people can get breast cancer – Hayley Knight, from Bicester, diagnosed at 25

“The doctors said it was a one in three million chance that I’d developed breast cancer at my age – with no family history and nothing in my genetics. I want to raise awareness that anyone can get breast cancer, whatever their age.”

Men can get breast cancer - Mark Winter, from Tunbridge Wells, diagnosed in 2020

“As much as my friends listened and cared deeply for me when I was diagnosed, they couldn’t totally understand what I went through having cancer and being a man with breast cancer was even tougher. Men have died from breast cancer, because they’ve ignored the problem and not done anything about it.”

Members of the same family can get breast cancer-  Barbara-Anne Mackay, sister Sarah-Jane and aunt Audrey Anderson, all from from Arbroath

"Before my aunt Audrey, sister Sarah-Jane and myself were diagnosed within eight months of each other, there was already a history of breast cancer in the family.  Despite my family history, I was told that everything was fine. Don’t let yourself be dismissed by doctors. If you feel something is wrong, keep pushing to be seen. It could save your life.” 

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• Image 1: Hayley Knight
• Image 2: Mark Winter  
• Image 3: L-R Barbara-Ann Mackay, Sarah-Jane Shellard and Audrey Anderson
• Image 4: Anyone Can Get Breast Cancer logo

For full case studies and to set up interviews, contact Walk the Walk

• Lisa Tyrrell 01483 741430 or 07554 337566  [email protected]

Walk the Walk

• Breast cancer charity, Walk the Walk, is the organiser of The MoonWalk Scotland, The MoonWalk London and The MoonWalk Iceland, where women and men walk marathons at Midnight wearing brightly decorated bras or colourful bra-t-shirts
• Walk the Walk specialises in promoting the benefits of Walking as an important part of cancer prevention, as well as for overall mental health and physical wellbeing
• Entries for all Walk the Walk’s 2024 MoonWalks are now open. Sign up now at walkthewalk.org