Get your running shoes ready for the 9th ANNUAL RUN FOR HOPE on Saturday, July 13 in Fort Collins, Colorado – run, walk, or cheer people on during the 5K event!! Neuroendocrine Cancer: New Treatments and New Hope, an educational event with keynote speakers Rodney Pommier, MD and Diana C. Medgyesy, MD, will follow the Run for Hope.
The goal of the run, says Jeanne Lambert, Run for Hope coordinator, is to raise awareness of carcinoid cancer, provide education, and give hope . . . while raising funds for carcinoid research and education and the Poudre Valley Cancer Center.
Get a team together and join the 2013 journey! The top team will have a donation made in its name to the PVH Cancer Center.
Dr. Rodney Pommier
Carcinoid/neuroendocrine tumor specialist Dr. Rodney Pommier, surgical oncologist from Oregon Health and
Dr. Diana Medgyesy
Science University in Portland, Oregon, and Dr. Diana C. Medgyesy, medical oncologist and hematologist, a Front Range Cancer Specialist in Fort Collins, Colorado, will be the keynote speakers for Neuroendocrine Cancer: New Treatments and New Hope.
Why is the zebra associated with carcinoid, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, and other rare NETs? In the United States, a disease is considered rare if less than 200,000 people are known to have that disease. At least 115,000 people in the U.S. have been identified as having a NET. There may be many more due to misdiagnosis or a lack of a proper diagnosis. Let’s keep working together to educate doctors and the public about carcinoid/NETs!
Special thanks to the Lambert family for this wonderful annual event and for helping to bring about greater awareness of carcinoid cancer, supporting research, and bringing hope to carcinoid/NET survivors and their loved ones!
