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Think Pink Ball

Wray sisters

Four sisters who have experienced first hand the trauma of a family carrying the faulty gene BRACA 1 (which leads to breast and ovarian cancer), are organising a Think Pink Ball to raise awareness.  Maureen, Mandy, Sharleen and Rosie Wray lost their sister Kay Wray to the disease ten years ago.

"Along with Kay's daughters Rachel and Sarah, and her nieces and nephews including Tammy, Fred, Lisa and Chris we wanted to hold a celebration of Kay's life as well as celebrating the fact that developments in technology have led to the whole family being screened for the faulty gene," they said.

Two of the four sisters have been identified as carrying the gene and this has led to preventative surgery and early detection - without which they would not be here now.

The Ball, with live band Midlife Crisis, is at
Shrigley Hall near Macclesfield, Cheshire
on Saturday, November 8.

Tickets (£40) and more information are available
from Rachel on 07931 162165 or email

thinkpinkball@googlemail.com
  • Every year more than 44,000 women in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer – one of the highest rates in the world.
  • Breast cancer is the biggest cause of death for women between 35 and 55 years of age.
  • In the last ten years death rates for breast cancer have fallen by almost a fifth, thanks to earlier detection and improved treatments. (In the 1970s around 5 out of 10 women with breast cancer survived beyond five years. Now it's 8 out of 10.)
  • Over a third of those who develop breast cancer will still never be cured. In the UK the number of people with breast cancer is increasing due to lifestyle choices.
  • 1 in 10 women and 1 in 1000 men in the UK will develop breast cancer at some time during their life.


The Genesis Appeal

The Genesis Appeal is the only UK charity entirely dedicated to the prevention of breast cancer. They aim to achieve this by providing a strategic programme of clinical research, the UK's largest family history clinic, and a training centre for specialists in all breast cancer disciplines.

Our mission is to create a future without breast cancer by making 1 in 10, none in 10.

The appeal is currently helping to fund The Nightingale Centre and Genesis Prevention Centre, the only purpose built breast cancer prevention centre in Europe.

The Genesis Appeal also funds and supports the following people and projects:
  • Dr Michelle Harvie, the only Research Dietician in the UK dedicated to preventing breast cancer, whose book The Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Diet is published by Rodale/Pan Macmillan
  • Gene testing for women who carry a faulty gene
  • The Family History Clinic at the Nightingale Centre and Genesis Prevention Centre - the largest of its kind in the UK - provides counselling and breast screening for women worried about breast cancer in the family 
Breast Cancer Campaign Genesis Cancer Research

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