They’re moving their butts to beat bowel cancer. Will you?
They’re bowel cancer patients, sisters and sons. And they all took on the Move your Butt Challenge this June awareness month, because bowel cancer has touched their lives deeply.
How to get involved
June is bowel cancer awareness month, so we’re encouraging New Zealanders to Move your Butts more during June. You can even Move your Butt from home if necessary, simply challenge yourself to exercise more than you usually do.
Here’s how:
1. Set your challenge
It can be anything that gets you moving more – walking or cycling 20 minutes a day, doing star jumps with the family – it’s up to you.
Get started
2. Get a team together
Get a team of friends, family or workmates moving together (virtually if needed). You’ll have more fun, stay motivated and raise even more money to beat bowel cancer.
3. Get sponsored
Ask your friends, family and colleagues to sponsor your challenge. You could WIN an awesome pair of Bum Huggers and raise vital funds for Bowel Cancer New Zealand.
4. Save your butt
The good news is that if bowel cancer is diagnosed early enough, it CAN be beaten. So if you’re worried, move your butt and see your doctor.
Why sign up to Move your Butt this June?
Because bowel cancer is the second highest cause of cancer death in New Zealand. It kills as many New Zealanders as breast and prostate cancer combined – and it can affect anyone at any age.
During June alone:
Every day, on average:
250
Kiwis will be diagnosed with bowel cancer
100
Of us will die from bowel cancer
Every day on average:
8
Kiwis are diagnosed with bowel cancer
3
Of us will die from bowel cancer
Taking part in Move your Butt 2022 will help us reduce these shocking statistics
– and help fund patient support services, physio rehabilitation and counselling programmes.
Last year, hundreds of New Zealanders walked, ran, swam, star-jumped, trekked and tree-posed their way to raising nearly $168,000 towards life-changing bowel cancer awareness, advocacy, education, research and patient support.
Join us for 2022 Register your interest here
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Beating bowel cancer
No one likes to talk about bowel cancer, but the bottom line is, the more you know, the better the chances of beating it.
So check out our helpful blogs, tips and stories on preventing and overcoming this silent killer.
