Colleen McKenney to Participate in Boston Sixty Mile Susan B. Komen Race Fall 2007

Colleen McKenney to Participate in Sixty Mile Susan B. Komen Race Fall 2007
Boston is a great place for a first.

Around the country the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure has become an annual event. Not all the races are equal. Some are short fun runs for the kids whose legs barely reach the ground. Others are competition 5K and 10K runs for people who have the stamina or think they have the stamina to run that kind of event.

All of the events are intended to make it possible for people to race at the level they are able and at the distance that they feel they need to.

With a sister and a wife who have both had multiple fights with cancer, I am learning a lot about how finding meaningful solutions to this scourge is important

The Susan B. Komen Fund was begun because, when Susan was going though her battle with breast cancer, many of the resources needed by patients and families did not exist. The fund provides needed assistance to researchers, patients, and families not provided by other cancer organizations during the search for a cure. Most of the funds are given in small grants with specific goals in mind. It is a different approach to managing the problem of seeking a cure while helping those who are in need of help now.

When Susan was going through her fight it was a lonely time for women with Breast Cancer. There were few races for the cure. The big cancer organizations were raising funds for some types of research, but many of the things patients needed to make it through the day were not available. It was a lonely time for Breast Cancer patients when the Komen sisters began their fight.

Now that fight involves women (and men) in every part of the country. My sister is one of those women who will be participating on the twenty fifth anniversary of her first fight with cancer. She won the fight, but lost a bit of her figure in the battle. In those days the surgeons only had one solution to Breast Cancer and it was always extreme.