WALKERS CONQUER RAIN TO FIGHT BREAST CANCER.Byline: Erik Nelson Staff Writer More than 3,000 walkers slogged though the rain along the Malibu coast Sunday as they finished a three-day, 60-mile walk to call attention to breast cancer and raise $6.6 million to help find a cure. In the third annual Avon Breast Cancer Three-Day walk, participants, including 300 breast cancer survivors Cancer survivors are those individuals with cancer of any type, current or past, who are still living. The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) pioneered the definition of survivor as from the time of diagnosis and for the balance of life, a person diagnosed with , completed the last part of their trek from Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. to Malibu's Zuma Beach undaunted by Sunday's rain, and their supporters greeted them with cheers. ``Their attitude has been what's a little rain when you're out here with women who have survived breast cancer?'' said Carolyn Aishton, vice president for corporate programs for the New York-based Avon cosmetics company. After surviving such a devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. disease, she added, ``a little rain is like a day at the beach.'' That spirit was echoed among the 3,100 walkers, some of them unprepared for a rainy finish line. ``I have two ponchos, two trash bags and two Mylar blankets underneath, and we're soaked,'' said Denise Kurtz, 57, of Sherman Oaks as she walked into Malibu's western limits with breast cancer survivor of five years Pat Haynes of Redondo Beach Redondo Beach (rĭdŏn`dō), city (1990 pop. 60,167), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1892. Once a commercial port for Los Angeles, it is a residential and resort city with a protected harbor and an excellent marina. , 57. They were rained upon all of Friday, she said, but enjoyed nice weather Saturday and weren't expecting to get wet Sunday. ``Nobody has their rain gear on, because we were told that it was going to rain tonight,'' she said. Walkers in and around seven cities Seven Cities may refer to:
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Stone Mountain near Atlanta, and the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. The money will be granted to leading research programs - including the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California's Irvine Medical Center - looking into possible causes, prevention, treatment and cures for breast cancer. Grants will also cover clinical care of medically underserved and minority women. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Christi Misenhimer, left, and her mother, Dee Misenhimer, wait for a family member to finish the the three-day trek. (2) Lucrecia Jacobson of San Pedro greets cheering volunteers as she nears the end of her 60-mile fund-raising walk. David Sprague/Staff Photographer |
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