Fiona Hyslop MSP for the Linlithgow Constituency joined Breast Cancer Now in Holyrood this month to support the charity’s flagship campaign, Wear it Pink, which officially takes place on Friday, the 24th October.
The campaign, now in its 24th year, has raised over £43 million since it began in 2001 to help fund Breast Cancer Now’s lifesaving research and life-changing support for people affected by the disease. This year’s event at the Scottish Parliament also shone a spotlight on incurable secondary (metastatic) breast cancer and celebrated Fiona’s friend and colleague, the late MSP Christina McKelvie MSP who died from the disease earlier in the year.
“I am pleased and proud to support Breast Cancer Now’s Wear It Pink Campaign, and this year I am especially proud to remember the passion my late colleague Christina McKelvie MSP, who always hosted this event in Parliament, had for this hugely important cause.
“October is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and so I am encouraging people across West Lothian to take part in the Wear it Pink Campaign, to raise awareness or vital funds for research and support.
“Breast cancer remains one of the four most common cancers in Scotland. Breast Cancer Now have a vision that by 2050, everyone diagnosed with breast cancer will live – and be supported to live well. But to make that happen, we all need to act now.”
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