Imagine going to get your monthly check up and, after scrutinizing the symptoms of your child, the doctor tells you that he/ she has been diagnosed with cancer. How would you react? What if you didn't have the money to help your beloved child? Most parents would panic and try to find any way that they could possibly gain the treatment necessary to help their child. These are the circumstances that a simple 5k run could help prevent. In the near future, with the help of the UCDavis cancer research center, we will be able to help others and support their research as well.
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Here is a video that may make it easier to understand and empathize with what truly goes through a family's mind when their child has been diagnosed with cancer. ^^^
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The Effects of this Horrible Disease Among Children- Around 10,590 children, ranging from ages
1-14, are diagnosed, in the United states, with cancer. - less than 20% of these diagnoses survive - Every year about 1,180 children are expected to die from cancer. |
"We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time."-Bryant McGill |
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What You can do to Help Spread our CauseDue to this 5k run being very new to the sacramento area, we may not be able to spread the word and let our entire community know what exactly is going on. So as we gather more and more people we are hoping that some of you would be able to spread the more and tell more and more people about our cause and what we are trying to do in the sacramento area.
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A Lasting JourneyAlthough we may not be able to make a large impact when it comes to helping support pediatric cancer with one 5k run, we hope to proliferate this cause by having more of these events involving physical activity. We hope to not only benifit these cancer patients but also this community as a whole.
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