Monday 22nd February 2010

Fishers set to reach new heights

An eight strong team at Fishers Solicitors in Ashby de la Zouch are set to take part in the Snowdon 500 challenge on 23rd May this year.

The team comprising of Charles Killin, John Gillions, Louise Taylor, Amanda Payne, Andrew Birchall, Gill Elwood, Hayley Dennis and Ruth Oakley, has risen to the challenge to reach the summit of Mount Snowdon in order to raise money for the Prostate Cancer Research Centre (“PCRC”). They will form part of a larger group of around 500 people, taking part in one of the biggest sponsored walks up Snowdon ever to take place.

Both Amanda Payne and Louise Taylor have lost loved ones to prostate cancer. Amanda Payne has lost two uncles to the disease and Louise Taylor lost her father seven years ago. Louise Taylor, Head of Business Law at Fishers said “Raising funds and awareness into the research, diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer is very close to my heart. My father died of the illness aged 58. He did not have any symptoms until the cancer had spread and so by the time it was diagnosed he didn’t really have a fighting chance of survival. He died only eighteen months following diagnosis. The walk is an excellent way of raising funds and promoting awareness.”

In the coming weeks the team will be training hard and getting in shape. Andrew Birchall said “We’re looking forward to the challenge. It will be good fun and a great excuse to get in shape! We will also be raising money which will make a difference to future generations of men diagnosed with the disease”.

The Snowdon 500 Challenge will take place over the weekend of Saturday 22nd May and Sunday 23rd May 2010.

To register visit www.snowdon500.co.uk.

The PCRC is a registered charity based at the Institute of Urology at University College London. The work of the PCRC is known and respected internationally and its researchers are acknowledged to be carrying out some of the best research in the world in their field.

For further information visit www.prostate-cancer-research.org.uk

Facts about prostate cancer:

Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men.
Men aged 50 or over have a 1 in 11 chance of contracting prostate cancer.
Each year more than 30,000 men are diagnosed with the disease and more than 10,000 men die of it.
Prostate cancer grows slowly and is quite resistant to chemotherapy.
Survival rates have not improved as they have for some other cancers.