{"id":4737,"date":"2018-10-01T15:37:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/?p=4737"},"modified":"2018-10-01T15:37:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:37:38","slug":"making-strides-fight-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/mandarin\/making-strides-fight-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Strides in the fight against breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Martie Thompson
\n<\/span>editor@floridanewsline.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

October is widely recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the American Cancer Society has scheduled its 5K Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Jacksonville to correspond with this. This walk, to be held on Saturday, Oct. 13 beginning at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, aims to not only raise awareness but also funds to save lives from breast cancer. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>This event raises money to fund innovative research, provide free information and support, and to help people reduce their breast cancer risk or find it early when it’s most treatable,\u201d said Karen Babcock, senior community development manager with the American Cancer Society. \u201cFrom the opening ceremony to the post-walk entertainment, the Making Strides event is a celebration of survivors and opportunity to remember loved-ones lost.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Event chair Stacy Hanson, one of the many volunteers who works tirelessly to bring this event to fruition, says her role is to manage the event\u2019s committee and vice chairs, motivate the teams, and be a leader for the Making Strides event by telling her personal story. Hanson has <\/span>Stage IV, Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer, as well as having the BRCA1 gene, the \u201chorrible trifecta,\u201d according to her. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year was her first year involved with Making Strides as a walker and this year she is the event chair, a testament to her drive and perseverance. She believes the American Cancer Society is a great organization and that there are many benefits to having a local Making Strides event, to include bringing the community together for a good purpose where people can walk, at their own pace, in teams of friends, families and colleagues, in support of those who have breast cancer. Specifically this year, she said emphasis will be placed on awareness of Stage IV cancer. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI believe we are on the precipice of a cure,\u201d Hanson said. \u201cBut it takes a lot of money. And early detection, while extremely important, gets a lot of attention and research dollars. I think Stage IV needs more attention. There is no change in the number of deaths from Stage IV breast cancer over the years.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

She pointed out that \u00a0there is no cure for Stage IV like the lesser stages. She said that with Stage IV, the best one can hope for is to be termed NED \u2014 No Evidence of Disease. For the past year and a half, Hanson has been in a lifesaving clinical trial and her tumor has decreased by 98 percent and continues to show regression, but she is not NED yet. <\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cI am fortunate that I have resources and access to care,\u201d Hanson said. \u201cThe American Cancer Society can help others with these things that I was fortunate to get on my own.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This sentiment is echoed by Jacksonville Sponsorship Chair and Southeast Region Event Chair, 23-year volunteer Cynthia Farah, herself a five-year survivor. She said she was aware of the American Cancer Society from her career at St. Vincent\u2019s Medical Center and had walked in the Making Strides event prior to her diagnosis. <\/span><\/p>\n

Farah said two of the key missions of the American Cancer Society are patient services, such as volunteers driving patients with no family or friends available to treatment (\u201cRoad to Recovery\u201d), and research. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe American Cancer Society really does what it says it will do,\u201d Farah said. \u201cI didn\u2019t have to use all of their services, but it was good for me emotionally to know the ACS was there. You don\u2019t have to go through this alone, in absence of family. No one should have to face cancer alone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Farah said she felt the most important messages are that early detection is key, don’t give up hope, and do everything you can in the fight: volunteer, donate, and take care of yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hanson felt that it is important, especially this month, to \u201cThink before you Pink.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn some ways, I think breast cancer awareness has become very commercialized,\u201d Hanson said. \u201cPay attention to what you are buying and what you are supporting. Also, we are all aware of breast cancer now\u2026 but what is next? Research and community health care are very important and these are the things I am advocating for.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Visit www.makingstrideswalk.org for more information about the Making Strides Walk, including how to sign up or make a donation. Visit <\/span>www.cancer.org<\/span><\/a> for more information about the American Cancer Society.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photos courtesy Sight and Sound <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Approximately 10,000 people participated in last year\u2019s Making Strides walk, the largest American Cancer Society event in Jacksonville.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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