To Snowdonia and past: our mountain trek to lift consciousness of mouth most cancers and HPV

To Snowdonia and past: our mountain trek to lift consciousness of mouth most cancers and HPV



11 SEPTEMBER 2019
The build-up to Mouth Most cancers Motion Month is properly and actually underway. For these of you who don’t know, that is our nationwide marketing campaign to lift consciousness of a illness that impacts hundreds of Brits each single yr. It runs all through November, however for me and 20 different courageous campaigners, the motion begins this weekend.
We shall be heading to Wales to tackle not one, however two mountains over the course to the weekend and strolling over 17km within the course of.
However why?
Effectively, this occasion is only one of quite a lot of completely different thrilling bodily challenges with Moveit4smiles which have the objective of in the end elevating consciousness of mouth most cancers and one of many main causes of the illness, the human papillomavirus (in any other case often known as HPV). Two subjects that we urgently must shine a light-weight on and produce to your consideration.
Charges of mouth most cancers have by no means been larger. Over 8,300 persons are identified with mouth most cancers every year, or in different phrases, one particular person nearly each hour….