Relay For Life of Dunkirk-Fredonia
Can’t believe I forgot to post the pictures I took at Relay this year!
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Can’t believe I forgot to post the pictures I took at Relay this year!
Explore Relay For Life of Dunkirk-Fredonia’s photostream on Flickr. This user has 257 photos on Flickr.
Because after all of the planning, the fundraising, the Relaying, we Relayers need a good night’s sleep.
So we can wake up and start planning for next year.
Today’s students are a HUGE part of the success of Relay For Life and a key reason for our growth.
Young people have taken to the track as team members at community Relays for years, but more and more they are taking part in large numbers at college and high school Relays, at middle schools through Relay Field Day, and elementary schools through Relay Recess.
These young people are the future of Relay For Life, and if my local events are any indication, the future is very bright indeed!
To learn more about the youth movement in Relay For Life visit http://www.relayforlife.org/learn/relayforeveryone/studentrelays
Ok, so X isn’t the easiest letter to write for.
Since we don’t do X-ray’s at Relay and xylophones aren’t all that commonplace either, I’ve decided to just go outside the A-Z guidelines a little (what can I say, I’m a rule-breaker) and use some words that help describe Relay & Relayers that have X in them:
Whether its the strength exuded by the survivors, the exemplary dedication of the caregivers, the excitement of the Relayers or the extremely moving ceremonies at the event itself, there’s always something at a Relay that will exceed expectations. :)
W is for the World Wide Web and the many ways it helps us connect to other Relayers and volunteers around the world.
I can not wait for the day that Relay For Life becomes an event
that no longer represents our fight against cancer but commemorates
the day we beat it. The day everyone who has cancer can be told “You
will be always be a survivor."
U is for our Unsung heroes. The volunteers that work year-round to make Relay what it is for all of us.
Thank you.
Cancer patients are tenacious. They don’t give up, they fight through the fear of diagnosis, through the side effects of chemo and radiation, fight through the pain of surgery.
Their tenacity is paralleled only by their caregivers who are fighting their own battle against the constant worry, the fear, the stress of medical bills and they keep fighting.
We Relayers are a tenacious bunch too. We keep Relaying because they keep fighting. Their tenacity to beat cancer is an inspiration to us, and we want them to know that we Relay for them.
Together we will win.
If research is the heart of the American Cancer Society, support programs are the hands.
These are the programs that literally reach out and touch cancer patients and their families. These are the programs that are supported by our Relay fundraising efforts.
The American Cancer Society believes strongly in research. So much so that no single non-profit, non-governmental organization in the US has invested more than the ACS. Research is, in many ways, the heart of their mission.
The ACS research program was launched in 1946 with one million dollars from an amazing four million dollar fundraising effort by Mary Lasker and a group of colleagues. Just one year later Dr. Sidney Farber, M.D. discovers the first successful chemotherapy treatment, which leads to remissions in children with leukemia. In 1954 a study by the ACS confirms the link between smoking and lung cancer. Fast forward to 2000 and a discovery by Brian Druker, MD that leads to a new era of molecularly targeted treatments for cancer in 2011 two American Cancer Society-funded researchers, Dr. Bruce A Beutler and Dr. Ralph M. Steinman, receive Nobel Prizes.
All told, 46 American Cancer Society research grantees have gone on to win the Nobel Prize for their continuing work in cancer/medical research & treatment.
The wealth of talent and dedication of those researchers has truly changed the way we view, diagnose, treat cancer. There is no doubt in my mind that the work of current and future research grantees will ultimately lead to a cure for all cancers.
Want to learn more? Visit http://www.cancer.org/research/ for information about the history, grantees, and current accomplishments of the ACS research program.
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