The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure® Series is the world’s largest and most successful education and fundraising event for breast cancer ever.
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Marnita Kidd, a single mother, artist and breast cancer survivor says, “I was very fortunate to have health insurance, a loving family and support from organizations such as Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation and Living Beyond Breast Cancer”.
1 in 8 US women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. Since it started in 1983, the Komen Race for the Cure Series has grown from one Race with 800 people in Dallas to a global series of more than 150 Races with almost 1 million people participating on four continents.
“There’s a lot of hope and there’s a lot of love out there, and this is so special”, breast cancer survivor Kathy Wagler said. But, she said, “It got to the point I needed to get it checked”. The remaining 25-percent supports national breast cancer research programs. “One of our main issues is to raise awareness that it can strike younger women”, she said.
By the afternoon, doctors had screened more than 300 people – men and women of all ages. “I have a dear friend who was recently diagnosed that I’ve known since I was ten years old”.
“I believe that I survived”, she said. “I’m here so I might as well do it”.
“No matter what kind of cancer, no matter where you’re from, it all stays here in this community, and that’s why everyone supports this race”, she added.
Saturday night she will receive the state’s highest honor. Our focus is on low-income, uninsured, underinsured and otherwise medically vulnerable people whose cancer diagnosis brings financial and emotional crises as well as a medical crisis.
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“I’m going to help out as long as I’m here”, said Yeo, who has been cancer-free for the past three years. “This gives us the opportunity to raise funds that we grant back out to the community”, Bruce said.
