The incredibly successful partnership between Mash Direct Belfast City Marathon and Cancer Focus NI came to an end in September 2022 having raised an unbelievable £245k for the official charity partner.
The impressive total will undoubtedly make a significant impact on a unique research project the charity is funding at Queens University, Belfast. The research aims to determine how immunotherapy can more successfully treat oesophageal and pancreatic cancers, which currently have extremely low survival rates.
The partnership success has been a huge highlight and triumph during periods of uncertainty over the past 3 years with the COVID pandemic causing the cancellation of the marathon in 2020 and the change of date to the autumn in 2021, yet the people of Northern Ireland persevered and continued their efforts to train, take part and raise vital funds that will make a lasting difference locally.
