Paul Clinton

Why I’m fundraising...

In April 2026, I’ll be running the London Marathon for a very personal reason.

My partner, Maxi, was diagnosed with low-grade serous ovarian cancer, a rare and lesser-known form of ovarian cancer that often affects younger women and has limited treatment options. Like many ovarian cancers, it’s usually diagnosed after it has already spread, when it becomes much harder to treat.

It has completely turned the life we were building together upside down and robbed us of more than I’d want to put into words.

All ovarian cancers are cruel and unfair. A diagnosis like this doesn’t just bring uncertainty at the start. It lingers long after treatment ends. It affects your sense of safety, your plans for the future, your energy, your independence, and the way you imagine your life unfolding. In many ways, initial surgery is the starting point of a marathon of uncertainty.

Here’s what many people don’t realise:
• Around 7,500 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the UK every year, that’s roughly one woman every hour.
• Low-grade serous ovarian cancer (LGSOC) is rare, accounting for around 5–10% of ovarian cancers.
• Innovation is severely lacking. Because it’s so rare, only a few hundred people a year in the UK are diagnosed with this specific type, meaning it is significantly under-researched and harder to treat effectively.

Living alongside this diagnosis has shown us just how under-recognised and under-funded ovarian cancer still is, particularly rare subtypes like low-grade serous.

That’s why I’m fundraising for Target Ovarian Cancer, the UK’s leading ovarian cancer charity. They focus on what truly changes outcomes: improving symptom awareness, driving earlier diagnosis, funding better and more targeted treatments, and supporting everyone affected by ovarian cancer, including those living with rare forms of the disease.

Every mile I run is for Maxi, and for everyone facing ovarian cancer who deserves clearer answers, better options, and crucially earlier detection to offer more hope for the future.

If you’re able to donate or share this page, you’ll be helping to transform the future for people diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

Thank you. Please support my fundraising, and together we’ll help change what’s possible for everyone affected by this disease.