This year’s line up includes Zumba with Lindsay Jay, Booiaka with Jo Cooper, “Girls just Wanna have Fun” with Jo Parry and closes with Kardy Laguda’s Kardy party! If you can’t get to London to join in the fun – why not set up your own Pink Aerobics event. We can give you lots of help and have a pack of information, posters, a CD, t-shirt and much more we will send through to you so you can arrange your own class.

More information available or you can sign up at www.pinkaerobics.com

New research published this week in the Annals of Oncology journal has found the proportion of women dying from breast cancer in the UK has dropped by more than 10 per cent in the last five years. Ten years ago, the UK had the highest rates out of six major European countries – France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland and the UK – but the report suggests that death rates have fallen to a similar rate as those in France and Germany.  Encouragingly, the research predicts that the rate will continue to fall, particularly among women under 50.

Scientists in Italy and Switzerland looked at World Health Organisation data for cancer death rates across Europe. From this, they have predicted that breast cancer death rates will fall by nine per cent to 14.9 per 100,000 EU women overall in 2012. In the UK, they predict rates will fall by 13 percent to 15.95 per 100,000 in 2012, compared with 18.39 per 100,000 women in 2007. They further predict that deaths in the EU among women aged 20 to 49 will fall by 13 per cent to 6.3 per 100,000 women.

The study authors attribute their findings primarily to advancements in treatment for breast cancer. Having found significant decreases in death rates amongst women under the age of 50, they suggest that screening for the disease has not played such a significant role as women in this age group do not generally receive mammograms. Study leader Professor Carlo La Vecchia, from the University of Milan, said of the findings: “The fact that there will be substantial falls in deaths from breast cancer, not only in middle age, but also in the young, indicates that important advancements in treatment and management are playing a major role in the decline in death rates, rather than mammographic screening, which is usually restricted to women aged 50 to 70 in most European countries.”

Dr Rachel Greig, of the charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said in response to the findings: “Whilst we know breast cancer incidence is on the increase, it’s reassuring to see positive indications that the rate of breast cancer deaths could decrease in 2012.”

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Source: Cancerkin

Speaking about diagnosis, denial, reconstruction and body image post surgery, their accounts not only reveal how humour and optimism made a traumatic time more bearable, but also how women can reclaim and revalue both their bodies and their own personal strength in the face of physical change.

This film was made as part of the What’s Your Story? filmmaking training programme which took place across London in 2010. Led by the Documentary Filmmakers Group it’s aim was to teach documentary filmmaking across four diverse London communities.

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Mary represents the nearly 1.4 Million women who are diagnosed with breast cancer every year (worldwide). This video is designed to help women recognise the symptoms of breast cancer and to know when they need to go to their GP – the sooner a woman is diagnosed, the better her long-term chances of survival.

Please share this video with everyone you know – the more people who see this, the more lives we can save.

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