Cancer Run In Memory Of Local Mum

A Bath mum who died just after her 41^st birthday will be remembered at this year’s Race for Life, when around 60 family and friends gather together on June 16^th to walk, jog or run the 5k course.

Lizzie Dellow, a popular and well known woman, whose life was cut short by a rare cancer earlier this year, will be remembered by many of her friends and family at this year’s Race for Life at The University of Bath, Claverton Down.

They will be dressed in pink t-shirts with the name ‘Team Pink’ on the front and back – led by Lizzie’s daughter Olivia Dellow, 18.

The former Kingswood School student will be leading the tribute as Olivia and her team make a stand against the disease. She is urging others to take part in Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life too this year.

Olivia said: “Mum was such a happy, thriving 40-year-old woman when she was diagnosed. She went to the gym, she took part in numerous Race for Life events, some I did with her and she loved and lived life to the full.

“Around my 18^th birthday mum began to feel unwell and started to suffer from back aches and tiredness.  Doctors thought it might be gall stones as some of her symptoms were the same. But after a number of tests we were told that mum had a rare cancer – cancer of the bile duct.

“My brother Harvey and I were told by mum and dad this it was terminal and there was nothing that could be done to save her.”

Currently studying at Nottingham University, Olivia says her mum would be so proud of all the women who are going to take part in Bath in order to raise funds for research into all cancers.

Olivia added: “I just hope others will join us too to fight against cancer and those facing the toughest battle there is.

“Mum loved travelling and she ran her own travel consultancy. She had just started out on her new career and whilst she was ill we made the most of going on some lovely holidays together as a family.”

Lizzie Dellow was aged just 41 when she died on 12 January this year, with her family by her side.

Every hour, around three people are diagnosed with cancer in the South West.

Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life in partnership with Tesco is an inspiring women-only series of events which raises millions of pounds every year to help defeat cancer by funding life-saving research.

Sam Beare, Cancer Research UK’s Bath Events Manager, said: “I do hope more women will sign up and take part in Race for Life and help us continue our research work into more than 200 different types of cancer.

“Come on ladies, please join Olivia and play your part by entering Race for Life in Bath today. Together, we can hit cancer where it hurts!

“It’s fighting talk and we mean every word we say. Cancer, Bath is coming to get you.”

Thanks to the generosity of its supporters Cancer Research UK was able to spend over £6 million in the South West last year on a wide range of research into many types of cancer.

Men in Bath, for example, are taking part in a trial funded by Cancer Research UK testing whether giving other drugs, like abiraterone, as well as the current treatment of hormone therapy, helps improve survival for men with prostate cancer that has spread. This trial will find out if these new approaches could save even more lives.