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My Avon Walk For Breast Cancer
Walking Until There's A Cure Found!
Thanks for visiting my Avon Walk page. If you've come this far, you probably already know that I've committed to participating in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, to spending the next few months training and fundraising, and to walking for an entire weekend. I'm one of thousands of people all over the country who will be doing this in 2004, all to raise funds for the Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Crusade and support their mission of providing access to care and finding a cure.
Why I'm Walking
I'm doing this walk for a lot of people and I'm mostly doing it for my mom and as a personal celebration of finding out that I DIDN'T have breast cancer at only 19! See below for the list of people I'm walking for.
I'm also walking again this year for ALL the women that have had breast cancer or are still fighting this disease. I will continue to walk until there is a cure found!
Why We're Walking
There is no cure for breast cancer. Early detection is still the best defense.
A Few Facts About Breast Cancer in the U.S.*
A woman has a one in eight chance of developing invasive breast cancer during her lifetime. In 1975, the chances were one in eleven. This year, an estimated 40,000 women will die from the disease. Breast cancer takes another life every 14 minutes. Another woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every 3 minutes. An estimated three million women are living with breast cancer. One million of them don't yet know it. In some way, breast cancer will directly or indirectly affect you or someone you know. Read on to find out why your participation in the Avon Walk is crucial to the care of thousands suffering from this dreaded disease, and may help one day put an end to it.
*Sources: American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute
Who I'm Walking For:
In Celebration Of:
Gina Saikin
Pauline Blackstock
Erlann Ploeger
Nancy Williams
Jeanne Wells
Jean Raymond
Friends In Need
Angels of Support
Richard Doughty
Paula Diaz
Peggy Fleming
Randi Passoff
Irene Perry - Chris Perry's mom (Was Running Back on the University of Michigan Wolverines Football team)
Josie Lee Parker
Jeanine
Eileen Chahrouri
Elizabeth MacTavish
Sheryl
Gloria
In Memory Of:
Crystal Wilks
Richard Doughty's dad
Andrea Collins, who lost her battle with Inflammatory Breast Cancer at the VERY young age of 16
Cheryl Michano/Cress
Shirley
Geraldine Potter
Adeline Manning
Grace Reese