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“Stride to End Pancreatic Cancer” Coming in May
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Submitted by LaWanda Foster
Let’s Stride To End Pancreatic Cancer! On May 19, 2013 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network PurpleStride New Orleans will be held at City Park with a timed 5k Run and 1 mile family friendly walk so we can Stride To End Pancreatic Cancer. More information about the PurpleStride walk may be found at www.purplestride.org.
My purpose for writing this article is to help raise awareness of Pancreatic Cancer. A few facts about Pancreatic Cancer: it is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States; has the lowest five-year relative survival rate of all major cancers at just 6%, and 74% of patients will die in the first year of diagnosis; is anticipated to move from the fourth to the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. by 2020 and possibly as early as 2015. Great strides have been made for breast cancer, so now is the time for those strides to be focused on Pancreatic Cancer.
As I write this article I am reminded of a song I hear on KLOVE by Third Day titled “Cry Out to Jesus”. The song starts out with “To everyone who’s lost someone they love long before it was their time, you feel like the days you had were not enough when you said goodbye”. On July 9, 2012 Pancreatic Cancer affected my family with the passing of my precious Aunt Glenda. She was a “Rae of Sunshine” in our family which is the name of our team and with a strong family presence we will be running in PurpleStride New Orleans in her memory. So many people that are full of life, love, and compassion have courageously fought this fight and left long before their time, so together as a community let’s give a voice to those that have lost their courageous battle to Pancreatic Cancer and create a path of hope for them.
Please help with this fight by visiting our websites at www.facebook.com/PanCAN.BatonRouge or www.pancan.org/section_get_involved/volunteer/join_local_affiliate.php or www.pancan.org and join our fight.
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