Run for the Cure Aglow in Pink

Sunday, October 03, 2010 11:34 AM

All in Pink! Dani Mindel ads a pin to the cap of Heather Arnot before heading off to run or walk the 5 km or 1km course

Click on the photo above for a video of the start of the run

Prince George, B.C.- Hundreds turned out at the Prince George Civic Centre this morning for the annual CIBC Run for the Cure.

The run started moments after it was announced the Province was dedicating half a million dollars to a new program, called “Tour for the Cure”. Elaine Webb is the Director of Health Promotion and Planning for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, and she says the program is all about awareness “The incidence of breast cancer is slightly higher in the north and while it isn’t a matter of access to mammograms, it may be an issue of awareness of the benefits of early detection.”

The Tour for a Cure will see a new pink bus visit 75 communities throughout the province starting next summer. The bus will be able to visit remote areas of the province to raise awareness and educate women in B.C. about breast health, prevention strategies and the importance of breast screening for the early detection of breast cancer.

(at right, the team "Mackenzie Mammories" poses before starting the run)

About 3,000 people will be diagnosed with Breast Cancer in B.C. this year and one in nine Canadian women - 11 per cent of all women - is expected to develop breast cancer during her lifetime, and as of 2010 more than

37,000 women are living in British Columbia that have been treated or are being treated for breast cancer.

The annual Run for the Cure is the single largest one day fundraising event for dollars for research and support for those with Breast Cancer. The Prince George goal this year is $180 thousand, and co organizer of the Prince George run, Gordon Wilson was confident that goal will be reached.

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Posted on Sunday, October 03, 2010 11:34 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: Slim2229 on October 3 2010 5:10 PM

Can someone help me out here? I am not a conspiracy theorist, but when you think about the BILLIONS of dollars raised worldwide for a cure to cancer, why hasn't it been cured? I mean, my mom died of stomach cancer in early '60s, and they can cure that now if caught. But, Good God, the money spent on Cancer research is huge, but nothing forthcoming.
When you think of it, if cancer was cured, how many people would be out of a job.
Sorry but I can't really see contributing to a cash cow for something that should have been cured years ago.
It sickens me to see people die needlessly all the time when all this money goes for a cure and nothing happens.

Posted by: Harbinger on October 4 2010 4:23 PM

Right now as it stands the only cures they have for cancer is Chemotherapy. God awful chemicals introduced to yer innards causing follicle loss, nausea and other side effects. Radiation which is a doctored down exercise in being a later version of a Hiroshima resident in 1945. And last of all surgery to remove the offending part of yer infected body. Spending billions of dollars to refine those Middle Age exercises except fer the radiation? I don't think so. Hey! Why not spend a hundred million dollars on real estate and also lodges for people suffering this disease so they are closer to home. In short, there ain't no cure. Living causes cancer. Bummer.