A WOMAN who won a race just weeks after cancer treatment is promoting a major cancer charity campaign.

Sally Smith and her daughter Alice, 18, are joining forces with Cancer Research UK and Channel 4 to plug Stand Up To Cancer.

Both of them took part in the Race for Life in Taunton, with Sally, a teacher, storming home in first place despite recovering from treatment.

Sally said: “There are four main things which kept me positive through my treatment and they were my friends, family, my faith and my fitness.

“I am a great believer in positive thinking and I had a great team at the Beacon Centre cancer unit (at Taunton’s Musgrove Park Hospital) to help me through my treatment.”

Sally is back in training, cycling and running, which she says helps take her mind off the radiotherapy treatment.

She is appealing for people to take a stand against the disease by raising funds for vital research into the devastating disease.

Supporters can decide how to stand up and get sponsored – a free fundraising kit is available to give you some ideas.

Alison Birkett, at Cancer Research UK, said: “We are calling on everyone in the South-West to join us and unite with people across the UK and stand up to this terrible disease.

“One in three people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives.

“Thanks to the incredible progress that’s been made in the last 40 years, more people are surviving than ever before.

“But we can’t afford to stand still.

“We have the technology and the knowledge to conquer cancer - we just need the funds to turn it into real-life treatments.”

*For more information and to get involved visit standuptocancer.org.uk