2025 Komen Triangle Race for the Cure

Let's Go Team Whoop Ass! 

Please join us for our 9th annual 

Komen Race for the Cure 

with Team Whoop Ass 

on Saturday, 5/3/2025!

2025 marks my 9th year anniversary as a breast cancer survivor & thriver!

What did I learn from cancer?

• To eliminate the scrouge of cancer from the face of the Earth, more funding is needed for RESEARCH.
• NO research = NO Cure.

• Research = CURE!
• Cancer does NOT discriminate!
• Tell people you love them; Do not wait another second.
• Every survivor year mark is a blessing; Cherish every moment as if it were your last.
• Every day is a gift; You are NOT guaranteed tomorrow; Surround yourself with people you love with all your heart and who inspire you!

This year, I’m dedicating my Komen Race for the Cure to fund more RESEARCH to FIND A CURE! and to the women & men undergoing cancer treatment now, cancer survivors, cancer thrivers and those undergoing treatment for Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC)!

Will you please join me in this fight by joining Team Whoop Ass and/or by making a donation today? Please use this link:

http://www.info-komen.org/goto/WHOOPCancerASS

· Every 12 minutes, a woman in the U.S. dies from breast cancer

· New data reveals a troubling increase in diagnoses among younger women. 

· In 2025 alone, an estimated 11,320 women in North Carolina will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 1,450 will lose their lives to the disease. 

· While we’ve made tremendous progress in curing breast cancer — the death rate has dropped 44% since 1989 — far too many lives are still being lost. 

· In fact, experts estimate that one-third of breast cancer deaths could be prevented if every patient had access to timely, high-quality care. 

· There’s so much more work left to do.

Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) is an advanced stage (stage 4) of breast cancer where tumor cells have spread to other parts of the body, such as the bones, liver, lungs, or brain. Nearly all breast cancer deaths are due to MBC. In fact, it kills over 44,000 people in the U.S. every year. It’s estimated there were more than 168,000 women living with metastatic breast cancer in the U.S. in 2020.  

The 5-year relative survival rate for people whose breast cancer is contained to the breast is 99%. Once breast cancer metastasizes to areas outside of the breast and surrounding regional lymph nodes—often spreading to the bones, liver, lungs, or brain—the 5-year relative survival rate drops to 29%.  

Komen provides funding for RESEARCH right here in North Carolina! Susan G. Komen announced a $2 million research grant to support groundbreaking work at Duke Cancer Institute and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. These two powerhouse institutions are coming together, combining their expertise to make real strides in understanding and treating metastatic breast cancer. 

Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) Collaborative Research Initiative

Susan G. Komen + Duke Cancer Center + UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center = REAL IMPACT

The Susan G. Komen® Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) Collaborative Research Initiative is a first-of-its-kind collaborative effort that is bringing together the best and brightest researchers at Duke Cancer Institute and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center to find breakthrough discoveries to end metastatic breast cancer. Research will cure this disease. Until then, research will transform MBC from a terminal diagnosis to a chronic disease, giving patients and their families the priceless gift of time.  

https://www.komen.org/breast-cancer-research/grants/metastatic-breast-cancer-collaborative-research-initiative/

‘Building a rainbow out of bricks’: NC woman’s push for breast cancer research is personal – Pam Kohl, former Executive Director, Komen TriangleNC 

Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article267887237.html#storylink=cpy

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article267887237.html

With a special thank you & huge round of applause to my incredible family & friends for lifting me up during my cancer journey when I was too weak during my grueling chemo, excruciating double mastectomy & painful reconstruction, for making sure I had protein, calories, water, multiple medications to stay strong to fight breast cancer, for making me laugh and for hugging me when I cried!

We did this together as a team united with TEAM WHOOP ASS! I’m a cancer thriver because of YOU and your continued encouragement, herculean support & inspiration you have brought me for the last 9 years and continue to do to this day!  I’m stronger today than before cancer! Why? Because of YOU!

That’s why every year our family and friends come together as Team Whoop Ass and participate in the Susan G. Koman Race for the Cure.  We’ve been a top fundraiser over the past eight years and we want to continue that commitment this year.  The money is crucial in continuing to discover better treatments and a cure. 

Will you please join me in this fight by joining Team Whoop Ass or by making a donation today? 

Please use this link:

http://www.info-komen.org/goto/WHOOPCancerASS

Contributing whatever you can. Do it for those you know who have been impacted by breast cancer, and for those that have yet to be impacted. 

Someday, we won't have to worry about losing loved ones to breast cancer. I hope you will join us in our race for the cure.