Published: Saturday, October 30, 2010, 1 H 54 updated: Saturday, 30 October 2010; 7 H 18
MOBILE, Alabama. - collective Cheerleaders, ""...... we are proud of you! ".many runners and walkers pumped their arms to the sky in victory as they are passed in a huge arc of pink balls that have marked the end of the 5-mile charity walk Saturday morning for the breast cancer awareness.
"A sister of mine found sorority she had breast cancer while she was 19," said Kate Akridge, 25, one for more than 9,000 walkers who participated in Making Giants third event against annual American Cancer Society cancer in downtown mobile.
"She received treatment, and it is now clear.""It is infirmière.Personnes should include breast cancer can affect any age, any person, man or woman," said Akridge.
More than 15,000 people attended the event Saturday, starts and ends in Bienville.La walk raised more than $325,000 for local services and patient support programs, said the event spokesperson Mary Kathryn Walker.
Enthusiasm for the event has increased rapidly since its launch in 2008, 3,000 walkers raised when more than $155,000, Walker said.
"Support in this regard was grand.Le control traffic, volunteers we and we deliver the water, people from the neighbourhood cheering us," said Lu Jeffrey, one of the first at the end.
Jeffrey said that she was inspired to participate, in part, by a former colleague.
"My manager at SpringHill Medical Center has been diagnosed with cancer while she was 30"She was young and a runner and aerobics instructor, Jeffrey says. ""It was a shock.
After a Lumpectomy, radiation and chemotherapy, it was clear from cancer and since then is married and had a child, Jeffrey said.
"People need to be educated so that they can detect at the beginning and it," said Jeffrey.
American Cancer Society estimates that 207,090 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year.
At least 39,800 women die this year from the disease, according to the estimations.Chez men, SNET new cases will be diagnosed as there are approximately 390 deaths, according to estimates.
Since 1993, walking walking nearly $ 6 million participated events Making Strides against cancer at the national level, generating some 400 million .the ' last year only, more than 700,000 walkers raised 60 million, said Walker.
A group of leaders of the Episcopal School of St. Paul by the finish line shaking their pom-poms and improvise cheers as it is approached the marchers.
"We lost some professors recently to cancer, and we are always expose children to events like this," said Catherine McPhillips, a Professor of English at the school and the Pom sponsor.
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