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

11 SEPTEMBER 2019
The build-up to Mouth Most cancers Motion Month is properly and really underway. For these of you who don’t know, that is our nationwide marketing campaign to boost consciousness of a illness that impacts 1000’s 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 plenty of totally different thrilling bodily challenges with Moveit4smiles which have the objective of finally elevating consciousness of mouth most cancers and one of many main causes of the illness, the human papillomavirus (in any other case referred to as HPV). Two subjects that we urgently have to shine a lightweight on and convey to your consideration.
Charges of mouth most cancers have by no means been greater. Over 8,300 individuals are identified with mouth most cancers every year, or in different phrases, one particular person nearly each hour….