England Team Supports Cancer Awareness
Cancer Research UK is working with the England Footballers Foundation in Wythenshawe, Manchester to help people make positive changes to their lifestyle and reduce their risk of cancer.
The England team launched the England Footballers Foundation in 2007 and have since raised over £1.6m for various charities.
Cancer Research UK has been chosen as their official charity partner for the next four years.
The England Footballers Foundation will fund a Cancer Awareness Roadshow Unit, which visits local communities and provides information on how to reduce the risk of cancer and the importance of early detection.
Since launching in 2006, the mobile units have welcomed over 200,000 visitors on board.
England and Manchester City Player Gareth Barry visited the Cancer Awareness Roadshow Unit for the first time on Wednesday.
Gareth said: ‘The Cancer Awareness Roadshow unit is somewhere people can go if they are worried about cancer. The staff on board can advise on how to make healthy lifestyle changes to reduce the risk of cancer, and why it’s important to spot cancer early’.
‘We’re proud to be supporting such a great cause and would urge as many people as possible to visit the unit to find out more information about cancer – it could save your life’.
The unit aims to raise awareness of how people can reduce their risk of cancer and spot signs and symptoms at an early stage, as well as providing support to help people make positive changes to their lifestyle.
For free, visitors can talk to a specialist nurse in a private consultation room, take a BMI test to find out whether their weight is within a healthy range, and pick up useful health information to take away.
Claire Rimmer, Senior Cancer Awareness Roadshow nurse, added: ‘We hope to talk to members of the public – men and women, young and old – about how cancer can be prevented and detected. We offer visitors the opportunity to have a private consultation with our nurses and also invite local health workers onto the unit to inform people of health services in their area’.
