Heavyweight boxer David Tua will be performing household tasks for the Trade Me auction organised to support the Breast Cancer Research Trust. In the auction, the winning bidder will be allowed to select the household work that David Tua will be performing.

The responsibilities could range from cooking to picking kids from school or ironing clothes to cleaning of bathrooms. The boxer was participating in the cause because even he had witnessed his mother’s survival from the disease of breast cancer.

As per Mr. Tau, "Knowing that my own mum, who I love so much, is a survivor of this terrible illness, it gives me great joy that I can honor her and fellow sufferers by doing this small but meaningful deed”. After 40 years of consistent research commenced by the Welsh researchers, they finally succeeded in developing a drug called tamoxifen that boosted the survival rate among the breast cancer patients radically.

Tamoxifen increased the life expectancy among the breast cancer patients by 15 years. A study on the research published in The Lancet Oncology claimed that following the medication of tamoxifen for a period of 5 years benefitted the patients for another 10 years, suffering from breast cancer which was highly responsive to hormones.