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 nicely 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 12 months. It runs all through November, however for me and 20 different courageous campaigners, the motion begins this weekend.
We will likely 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 a lot of totally different thrilling bodily challenges with Moveit4smiles which have the purpose 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 referred to as HPV). Two matters that we urgently must shine a light-weight on and convey to your consideration.
Charges of mouth most cancers have by no means been larger. Over 8,300 persons are recognized with mouth most cancers annually, or in different phrases, one particular person virtually each hour….