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jayfurrIn 67 days, my wife Carole, my friend Sandy, and I (the Quick Steppers), will take our first step in the Philadelphia Breast Cancer 3-Day, a sixty mile walk involving thousands of women and men... each of whom will have raised at least $2,300 in order to take part. It'll be a long, inspiring, and exhausting three days, but in the end, millions of dollars will have been raised for breast cancer research, treatment, and prevention.
Between now and then approximately thirty-five THOUSAND new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in the United States alone.
And between now and then approximately seven thousand five hundred American women and men will die of breast cancer.
That's in just over two months. Consider the toll the disease takes each year. And consider what the count is when we include every country on Earth. Thousands of lives cut short and thousands more forever changed by a disease that we COULD stop, if we just had the funding and research and will to make a difference.
The money we raise will go toward Susan G. Komen For The Cure and toward the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund. No advance in breast cancer research in the last twenty-five years has taken place without significant funding from the Komen organization. The NPT does its part by funding and supporting community-based efforts to ensure access to breast cancer prevention, screening, and treatment.
Will you support the fight against breast cancer? You can donate directly to the 3-Day by visiting this link: http://www.the3day.org/goto/quicksteppers -- just click the name of whichever walker you want to donate toward and you'll be taken to their specific donation page.
To read more about the event and the charities it benefits and the disease we're all trying to fight, you can also visit that link and click the 'Learn More' link in the upper left.
We walk because we want to make a difference. We walk because we know how many loved ones, friends, co-workers, neighbors, and people we've never even met have fought a hard battle and lost ... battles they might have won had they had earlier or more accurate mammograms, been tested for genetic markers for breast cancer, or had access to new treatments that are only now starting to show up.
How many more will die before we find the cure? We walk because EVERYONE deserves a lifetime.
Will you help us?
http://www.the3day.org/goto/quicksteppers
Between now and then approximately thirty-five THOUSAND new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in the United States alone.
And between now and then approximately seven thousand five hundred American women and men will die of breast cancer.
That's in just over two months. Consider the toll the disease takes each year. And consider what the count is when we include every country on Earth. Thousands of lives cut short and thousands more forever changed by a disease that we COULD stop, if we just had the funding and research and will to make a difference.
The money we raise will go toward Susan G. Komen For The Cure and toward the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund. No advance in breast cancer research in the last twenty-five years has taken place without significant funding from the Komen organization. The NPT does its part by funding and supporting community-based efforts to ensure access to breast cancer prevention, screening, and treatment.
Will you support the fight against breast cancer? You can donate directly to the 3-Day by visiting this link: http://www.the3day.org/goto/quicksteppers -- just click the name of whichever walker you want to donate toward and you'll be taken to their specific donation page.
To read more about the event and the charities it benefits and the disease we're all trying to fight, you can also visit that link and click the 'Learn More' link in the upper left.
We walk because we want to make a difference. We walk because we know how many loved ones, friends, co-workers, neighbors, and people we've never even met have fought a hard battle and lost ... battles they might have won had they had earlier or more accurate mammograms, been tested for genetic markers for breast cancer, or had access to new treatments that are only now starting to show up.
How many more will die before we find the cure? We walk because EVERYONE deserves a lifetime.
Will you help us?
http://www.the3day.org/goto/quicksteppers
