Pancreatic Cancer

Research Walk

To the Editor:

The community is invited to the greater Danbury’s only scheduled walk for Pancreatic Cancer Research sponsored by The Lustgarten Foundation. The Inaugural Fairfield County Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk will be held on October 30, 2011 at the Bethel High School Track. Registration begins at 8:30am and the walk starts at 10 am. It’s a 2.5-mile walk and 100 percent of all money raised goes directly to pancreatic cancer research.

This is a cause dear to our hearts, having lost my husband, Kevin, to this cancer at the age of 56 and my uncle Edmund at the age of 75. I have joined forces with two wonderful local women, Ellen Klaus from Newtown who lost her husband, Berny, at the age of 50 and Julie Dunn from Newtown who lost her mother, Rosemary, at the age of 51.

The Lustgarten Foundation is America’s largest private foundation dedicated solely to funding pancreatic cancer research. Based in Bethpage, New York, the foundation supports research to find a cure for pancreatic cancer, facilitates dialogue within the medical and scientific community, and educates the public about the disease through awareness campaigns and fundraising events. It has provided millions of research dollars and assembled the best scientific minds with the hope that one day early diagnosis will require nothing more than a routine blood test, and that better treatments can be found, someday leading to a cure. 

The Inaugural Fairfield County Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk is an event for the whole family. For more information or to register or volunteer for the walk visit www.lustgarten.org or email PancreaticCancerWalkCT@gmail.com

Karen Rowe

114 Grassy Plain Street, Bethel                       September 21, 20119