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Funding Cancer Research UK

Thanks to the generosity and hard work of our Race for Life supporters, Cancer Research UK funds vital research all over the UK and helped to make a difference to people with cancer.

Our progress so far

Race for Life has been bringing women together for 16 years, and has raised more than £327 million in total for Cancer Research UK. Over this time, we’ve seen real improvements in the outlook for cancer patients in the UK.

Here’s how the picture has changed:

Almost two thirds of women diagnosed with breast cancer now are expected to survive their disease for at least 20 years. When Race for Life first started, fewer than half could expect to survive this long.
Over the last decade, we’ve also seen the death rate from bowel cancer drop by around 16 per cent. That’s thanks to greater awareness, earlier detection and better treatments.
The incidence rate for cervical cancer has dropped by almost a quarter since Race for Life began, largely due to screening. Cancer Research UK contributed to the development and improvement of cervical screening.

And it's developments like these that have led to an an overall drop of around 15 per cent in the death rate from all cancers since Race for Life began.

Our milestones throughout the Race for Life years

Learn about the progress we've made since Race for Life began.

Our goals for the future

We’ve made some amazing progress and we’re determined to keep the momentum going. So we’ve set ten challenging goals that we aim to accomplish by the year 2020 to achieve our vision of beating cancer.

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