Dundee Race for Life plea

May and Justine

A Dundee mum and daughter, who both beat breast cancer, today called on local women to enter Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life.
May Rorrison (64) and daughter Justine Simpson (38) are urging women of all ages to sign up to walk, jog or run 5k at the event at Dundee’s Camperdown Park this summer.

The pair joined Cancer Research UK event manager Carolyn Johnston today to launch the event in the city.

Together they want to motivate mums, grans, sisters, daughters, friends and colleagues to book their places now for Dundee’s Race for Life on June 19.

The mother and daughter team have already signed up for the Race for Life challenge and are hopeful other women will now follow their lead.

May, who lives in the city’s William Street, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000.

“I was devastated when I was diagnosed,” she said.

“I was convinced it was a death sentence. I kept thinking of all the special times I would miss, like seeing my grandchildren grow up.”

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