'His motto was 'I’m not living with cancer; cancer is living with me and I’m taking it for a ride'.'
Two sisters with a passion for endurance events will be using pedal power to cycle non-stop around NI in just two days to raise awareness about pancreatic cancer.
The money will go into research in memory of Paddy and a school friend of Cathy’s, Natalie Wilson who died age 40 from the disease, leaving behind three young children. The #PedalThePeriphery event will start at the gates of Ormeau Park on June 9, where George Ezra will be playing at the Belsonic Music Festival in Belfast.
Andrea, a personal trainer said: "Cycling was so important to Paddy, his self-devised challenges and other official events at home and abroad. He used the bike to get to work and on family holidays. Cathy, a former Director at BDO who now runs her own business consultancy said: “Within five years, I not only lost Paddy, an incredible brother-in-law but also one of my school friends Natalie of 30-years to this devastating disease. Andrea and I are on a mission to raise awareness and fund vital research so other people don’t have to go through what we have.
NIPANC’s Chairperson, Ivan McMinn MBE said: "We will be supporting Andrea and Cathy every push of the pedal on this epic cycle around the perimeter of NI. The difficulty of this challenge cannot be underestimated but the good it will do will be enormous. On Friday, may the road rise to meet you and the wind be at your back."
Its findings have prompted Mark Taylor, NI Director of the Royal College of Surgeons and Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Cancer Surgeon to call for a strengthening of local pancreatic cancer services as ‘incidences are likely to continue to rise’ due to multifactorial reasons such as ‘increasing age, obesity and diabetes.’
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