I got an email from my supervisor, Jennifer, at MSKCC today. She is riding in MSKCC's Cycle for Survival, which is an indoor cycling event to raise money for rare cancers. More than half of all cancers are "rare", and it includes childhood cancers, uterine cancer, cervical cancer, sarcoma, appendix cancer, brain cancer, and others. These rare cancers do not get as much research money as the "common" cancers, and as such, there are generally fewer options for treatment. My supervisor is riding in memory of her mother, and I'd really like to see her surpass her fundraising goal. Click
here to go to her fundraising page.
I had an amazing summer in 2008, and really felt like I was learning a ton and had a purpose in life. Every day, I would tell my parents, "Today was the best day ever..." Jennifer helped make my experience at Memorial one of the best experiences of my life, and I'd like to help her with this.
Go to the website, read more about rare cancers, and learn what you can do to help raise money for research and treatment.
We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. - Mother Teresa
2 comments:
hey, how is it going for your breast cancer walk? isn't it coming up?
hey Er....well, I didn't raise enough money to walk (you had to raise something like $1800), and I raised almost 1000). And I can't afford to travel to charlotte and get a hotel room and park my jeep for the weekend if I did crew for the event....so I'm not doing it. But at least I raised money for breast cancer research, which I feel good about.
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