A Cold One For First Underwear Run
Run for Cancers Below the Belt coordinators Taylor Kanadler and Anna Daburger 250News photo
Prince George, BC – With the addition of some 'thermals', the first annual Run for Cancers Below the Belt went yesterday at the University of Northern BC in spite of the knee-knocking wind chill…
Run Coordinators Taylor Kanadler and Anna Daburger both admitted with a laugh that they have learned a lot in organizing what they hope will become an annual event – the main one being an underwear run might have to be shifted a little later in the year.
The money raised through yesterday's run will go to the Canadian Cancer Society to support health promotion and prevention initiatives.
Kanadler says while the event was open to all, they were targetting their peers at university. "We used slogans that are funny and cheeky because we knew that would appeal to a younger audience and that would be the majority of our participants," she said. "It's just a good way to get people talking about taking care of their health and being aware of cancers that hit under your boxers or bras."
While not wanting to shift attention from the event to herself, Anna Daburger had an experience with cervical cancer about a year ago that made her passionate about letting others know that cancer can strike at any age.
"At the time, I didn't know anything about it and it really caught me off guard," says the UNBC student. "I wasn't doing regular check ups, so I learned right away how important it is to really take care of your body because, for instance, if I would have gone for a pap test six months earlier, I could have caught it at a pre-cancerous stage, but I wasn't proactive enough."
Both women hope yesterday's event served as a reminder to their peers that they are not invincible, they need to be proactive in ensuring their health.
Comments
Good message but too sexual by nature. Sure there are other ways to send this message out.
Yeah, but to be in your late teens and early twenties again. of course the suggestive language is intriguing.
If your really worried about cancer, start looking at what you put in your mouth. I bet half of the problems could be solved by eating whole foods.
DPJ, if you infer sexuality from the message of this campaign maybe it’s time for some self introspection. It’s the year 2014, gone are the years (hopefully) of prudence & fear, where people were afraid or felt ashamed to talk about cancers that infected areas of the body that give pleasure & help propagate our species. Good for these young people for standing up & are helping to spread the message.
“He Spoke” is totally correct about what we eat is mostlikely a main contributor of cancer (whats added to the food)
I agree with detoe; you cannot separate the words; “breast” cancer; “cervical” cancer; “testicular” cancer; or “prostate” cancer. Deal with it.
Was listening to a CBC radio program on my way to work Sunday morning. Interviewee said “most elderly drivers would sooner have a cancer diagnosis, than loose their drivers license”.
I had to pull over,,,literally, off the road to shake my head, and wonder if most ppl in this life have ever been sick, I mean really sick where they are staring at death’s door.
I have, and I would give up most of life’s pleasures, needs and wants, duties and yes, My drivers’ license
I mean really, What a horrible comment.
Holy Crap! He Spoke and DPJ GET IT! It’s all about the additives in food! Well done, both of you! If you’re cooking processed food such at wieners, boil the crap out of it before you eat it, it’s about all this crap adding up in your body, where does it go, what does it do to you?
I’m a hunter, and I like eating wild meat just because there are no additives, a hell of a lot healthier than junk food, grow my own vegetables, no chemicals healthier food.
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