St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® in Memphis continues the fight against childhood cancer in Nashville with the annual St. Jude Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
The walk/run is Saturday, Sept. 24, at Edwin Warner Park, near the Williamson/Davidson county line in Nashville.
During September, which is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, supporters in Nashville and in nearly 60 communities nationwide will join together in this family friendly walk/run to raise funds and awareness for children battling cancer and other life-threatening diseases. This charitable event supports the lifesaving mission of St. Jude, where no family ever receives a bill for treatment, travel, housing or food.
Registration for the event, which features a scenic 5K, family-friendly activities, and live entertainment, is $10 for adults and children ages 6 and up. Participants are encouraged to form teams and raise funds to help St. Jude find cures and save children battling cancer around the world. Participants who raise $100 will earn an official event T-shirt, and participants who raise $250 will become members of our Fearless Fundraiser Club and earn additional St. Jude gear as they raise money for the cause.
To make a donation, volunteer or register, visit stjude.org/walkrun.
National series sponsors for the event include: Target and Thrivent Mutual Funds. National walk/run teams include: Tri Delta, New York & Company, Brooks Brothers, Delta Sigma Theta, Cox Automotive, Chili’s Bar & Grill, The Limited, Westfield, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Domino’s Pizza and Destination XL Group.
Local sponsors of the event are First Tennessee Bank, Dollar General, HealthStream and Orange Theory Fitness.
Nearly 16,000 children will be diagnosed with cancer this year in the U.S., and one in five of those children will not survive. But many not only survive, they thrive, like Murfreesboro resident Ally Cameron. Two days after her first birthday, Ally was diagnosed with a neuroblastoma – a solid tumor in her abdomen. Additionally, the cancer had spread to her skull, her left hip, and her chest lymph nodes. Instead of attending her first birthday party, Ally went straight to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital the day after the diagnosis, and received treatment including chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, and surgery. Thanks to her treatments at St. Jude, Ally is now cancer free and living a normal, active life as a middle schooler at Central Magnet Middle School.
Doctors often send their toughest cases to St. Jude because it has the world’s best survival rates for some of the most aggressive childhood cancers. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to more than 80 percent since it opened more than 50 years ago. The majority of St. Jude funding comes from individual contributors, and thanks to generous donors who support participating St. Jude Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer individuals and teams, St. Jude has the freedom to focus on what matters most – saving kids regardless of their financial situation.
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