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Vancouver: Blisters and sore muscles were the reward for courage and persistence for more than 2,100 walkers who spent the weekend trekking 60 kilometres around the city. United in a single cause, the walkers set a record by raising more than $5.5 million for The Weekend to End Breast Cancer. “This event is unlike anything [...]
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Derek Heasman, 74, a former head teacher of Bedmond School, will cycle non-stop from St James’ Palace in London to Holyrood House, Edinburgh, taking him up to six weeks to complete. And he is attempting this feat despite having undergone major cancer surgery, in November 2004 and again in February this year, which resulted in [...]
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Vancouver, Canada: The 3rd Annual Walk to End Breast Cancer kicks off this weekend at the Plaza of Nations. Expect to see thousands of men and women decked out in pink as they walk all over Vancouver raising money for the BC Cancer Foundation. For Lisa Hansen who lost all 4 of her grandparents to [...]
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CRICKET legend Ian Botham is set to pound the streets of Edinburgh to raise £1 million for teenagers with cancer. The sports personality, whose nickname is Beefy, is renowned for his tireless fundraising and the event will be his 11th walk for charity. The Beefy Bowls Out Teenage Cancer event is part of a tour [...]
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Padraig Harrington will donate all his prize money from this week’s €5m US PGA Championship to breast cancer research in memory of Darren Clarke’s wife Heather, who lost her battle against the disease on Sunday. Harrington was given the sad news as he boarded a plane to Chicago and contemplated flying back home immediately for [...]
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The odds of coincidental and similar cancer diagnosis are astronomical, but Laura Daly is convinced her brother and his best friend will triumph. Ms Daly’s 27-year-old sibling, Ryan, was diagnosed with leukemia last April. His best friend, also 27, who asked to remain anonymous, received the same news one year ago. Both Markham men are [...]
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When Melissa Barnes found out a friend’s baby was diagnosed with a deadly cancer, she e-mailed her other friends and asked for prayers. They did better than just pray. They started a full-fledged campaign to cure 16-month-old Keyonna Stephenson and help support her mother, Christine, 28. “The outpouring of generosity was overwhelming,” Barnes said. One [...]
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Nearly 2,000 people walked their way toward a cure for breast cancer yesterday, raising $4.5 million for research into the deadly disease. “We will find a cure,” breast cancer survivor Sheila Handley, 58, said on a break from the 60 km walk yesterday, which is held over two days. “We’re leaping strides ahead already.” She [...]
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ROCKLAND (Aug 12): Plans are underway for the 13th Annual Paul Devine Greater Gator Open golf tournament to be held on Saturday, September 9 at the Rockland Golf Club. Proceeds will benefit the Bob Gagnon Cancer Care Fund. The families and friends of the late Bob Gagnon and Paul Devine have worked together on this [...]
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Willie Hendry, international hairstylist to celebrities — like actresses Liv Tyler and Keira Knightley, supermodel Kate Moss and pop singer Victoria Beckham — will donate his collection of professionally-styled wigs to cancer patients at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. In addition to donating the wigs, he will be on hand to individually style [...]
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Lord of the Rings Oscar award-winning filmmakers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have donated over $300,000 dollars to the University of California for human embryonic stem cell research. Jackson is quoted as saying, “We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson’s disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and [...]
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