Physical Health United States Project #16301

Cycle for Survival

by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Project Report | Apr 4, 2017
Cycle for Survival 2017 Season Recap - Update #12

By Cailie Burns | Manager of Leadership Giving

Cycle for Survival 2017

In 2017—Cycle for Survival’s 11th season—thanks to donors like you (!), we raised a record-breaking $34 million for rare cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)! We cannot thank you and TripAdvisor enough for helping to make this possible.

This year more than 30,000 participants and over 210,000 donors came together to fight back against rare cancers in 16 cities nationwide including: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Seattle, Dallas, Chicago, Washington D.C., Bethesda, Boston, Miami, Summit, Paramus, Greenwich, South Bay, Huntington Beach and New York City.

We have raised over $140 million through our 11 years of rides, with every single dollar—100%—going directly to rare cancer research led by MSK. We look forward to sharing more about the projects you help fund and the transformative research that will be made possible thanks to the $34 million raised this year! In the meantime, here is a research breakthrough that you and the entire Cycle for Survival community made possible:

Testing a New Chemotherapy Delivery Method for Highly Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal cancer

The Battle: For women with recurrent ovarian cancer, the cancer tends to return more and more frequently over time despite additional chemotherapy.

Cycle for Survival funded... A clinical trial to test if adding heated chemotherapy (HIPEC) at the time of surgery (for recurrent ovarian cancer), followed by standard chemotherapy post-surgery, yields better results than standard chemotherapy alone.

And now... Researchers have been able to safely give the chemotherapy at the time of surgery. They will continue to enroll patients on the trial, further evaluating HIPEC effectiveness, and determine if patients can live cancer-free for longer periods of time.

Together we are revolutionizing the way cancer is diagnosed and treated. Together, we will beat rare cancers!

Thank you for continuing to fight with us.

Thank you, TripAdvisor!

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Jan 5, 2017
Cycle for Survival Update #11

By Cailie Burns | Manager of Leadership Giving

JOIN THE BATTLE

Happy New Year!

Cycle for Survival 2017—our 11th season—is over 92% filled with over a month to go before the first rides kick-off. This year, we will have a record breaking number of participants riding with us. To date there are over 6,391 bikes booked across the country—in 16 cities—and fundraising is off to a great start!

In December the Cycle for Survival community—including you—came together to raise $1.5 million to fund supercomputing equipment that will unlock the power of genetic data—and bring more personalized treatments for patients.

The Need for Supercomputing Equipment

Everyone’s cancer is unique, and a patient’s genetic DNA provides key insights into what caused the specific cancer. Doctors use this knowledge to provide better, more customized treatments.

Today's newest technologies are generating vital information faster than ever before—sequencing tumors to reveal the genetic makeup of a patient’s cancer. Cycle for Survival supporters have funded some of these technologies during past December Challenges.

With your help, there is now a massive influx of data that comes with a big need: Interpreting and analyzing trillions of data points to uncover patterns impossible to find with the human eye.

100% of money raised through Cycle for Survival funds rare cancer research, so each and every dollar benefits patients. With this supercomputing equipment, researchers can find answers to questions that human analysis can’t solve. These high-powered machines have the potential to significantly accelerate the development of cancer therapies. Thanks to incredible donors—like you—Cycle for Survival has been able to continue moving the needle further for patients worldwide. And we are not done fighting!

We can’t wait to see the Trip Advisor team in action at the Boston Cycle for Survival rides the first weekend in February. Thank you for again joining us in this fight to beat rare cancers!

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Oct 7, 2016
Cycle for Survival Update #10

By Cailie Burns | Manager of Leadership Giving

Times Square Takeover

Last week, Cycle for Survival took to the streets in New York for the fourth annual Times Square Takeover. Times Square Takeover celebrates registration opening for Cycle for Survival’s 2017 indoor cycling events taking place across the country. More than 1,000 participants joined in the fun to kickoff this season and help beat rare cancers.

2017 will be Cycle for Survival’s 11th year of rides and more than 31,000 participants will ride with together with a collective goal to beat rare cancers. Here is how it works: participants visit CycleforSurvival.org to start a team with with friends and family. Together they fundraise and share a bike for a four-hour indoor cycling event. Cycle for Survival takes place in 16 cities across the country in February and March: Bethesda, M.D., Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Greenwich, Huntington Beach, Long Island, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Palo Alto, Paramus, San Francisco, Seattle, Summit, and Washington, D.C.

Every dollar raised through Cycle for Survival launches and accelerates research led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) within six months of the events, empowering researchers to pursue the revolutionary ideas that lead to lifesaving breakthroughs. Thanks to incredible donors like you, we have been able to fund impactful discoveries:

Worldwide Training to Improve Survival Rates and Eyesight Preservation for Children with Retinoblastoma | Retinoblastoma, a form of rare eye cancer

The Battle: Worldwide, half of these children die from the cancer and over 90% of survivors require eye removal. There’s a need to train doctors around the globe on MSK’s improved treatment techniques that lead to 99% survival rates and only 5% eye loss.

Cycle for Survival funded... Dr. Abramson’s travel around the globe to train physicians from 45 countries (nearly every continent) in the more effective techniques developed at MSK that don’t involve direct chemotherapy to the eye.

And now... Retinoblastoma patients across the world have renewed hope, with the global circulation of this new technique that is not only saving eyes, but also saving lives.

We can’t wait to see Trip Advisor—and all of you—on bikes fighting to beat rare cancers with us in 2017!

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