This year, I ran for the Cure… not because someone close to me has been directly affected, not because I have lost someone I love… but for the exact opposite reason. I am twenty two years old, and I run because I know how LUCKY I am to basically be untouched by this horrific disease. I run for the cure because I HOPE that if we all work together, one dollar and one step at a time, that we will find a cure for breast cancer before someone I love is handed this diagnosis. The facts are straight: 1 in 9 women will be diagnosed, and out of every 100 breast cancer diagnoses, 1 of those will be men. So, this year, and every year until we find a cure, I run for everyone… for all the women, all the men… all the little boys and girls… so that not one more person has to be diagnosed with breast cancer. I run for you, and I run for me. I can only HOPE and do what I can that together, we can create a future without breast cancer.
Amy McCrea
Edmonton, AB