North Lanarkshire Provost Kenneth Duffy has welcomed the move to raise awareness for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month by lighting up the Civic Centre and the Arria Sculpture.
November marks Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, a type of cancer that affects 10,000 people in the UK each year.
To help raise awareness, the Civic Centre in Motherwell and the Arria Sculpture will be lit up today (November 17).
This has been organised by Fiona Campbell, who lost her mother to pancreatic cancer in 2019. Determined to continue raising awareness, Fiona has made it her aim to light up as many landmarks as possible across Scotland.
Fiona said: “My mum was an amazing woman who was well known and loved by everyone. She lived every day as if it were her last. She was such a fun and lovable person.
“The purple lights campaign (www.purplelightsuk.org) is something I became involved in last year as I feel it’s a really good way to raise awareness of this horrific disease.
“People see the lights and wonder why they are purple so google. Lots of landmarks, venues and buildings also share on their own social media reaching a wider audience. Pancreatic cancer was something that we hadn’t really heard of before Mum was diagnosed.
“I feel it’s really important to raise awareness of the symptoms so that people can get diagnosed sooner so that the survival rates improve, and so that more funding is given to research In the hope that one day families don’t need to go through the heartache we did.”
Provost Duffy added: “It is a privilege to help raise awareness for this cause by arranging to have two of North Lanarkshire’s landmarks lit up today.
“I hope that this will mean people become more aware of the horrible condition that is pancreatic cancer, and we can help get more funding towards finding a cure in the future.”
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