By Cailie Burns | Manager of Leadership Giving
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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