This last weekend was the 28th annual Nike Hood to Coast Relay – the largest relay in the world – and for the second straight year Team LIVESTRONG was there to take on the 197-mile challenge from Timberline Lodge on the slopes of Mount Hood, the tallest peak in Oregon, through the Portland metropolitan area, and over the Oregon Coast Range to the beach town of Seaside on the Oregon Coast.

32 folks from as far away as Tennessee, Georgia, and Alaska came in to take on the challenging course, having already raised over
$40,000 for the Foundation. Each…

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports from Dublin, Ireland, from the first-ever LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Summit on progress in the fight against cancer around the world, tobacco control, and eliminating the stigma of cancer. Dr. Gupta talks about the passing of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, reports on Senator Kennedy’s courageous battle against brain cancer, and his example as an “empowered patient.” Dr. Gupta also interviews Dr. Henry Friedman, an internationally-renown neuro-oncologist at the Robert Preston Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University in North Carolina, and discusses treatments for brain tumors.

Saturday, August 29, 2009
7:30 am – 8:00 am (EST)…

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Do you.. have a phone and high speed internet access?

If so, YOU can help volunteer for a special LIVESTRONG Day project.
We’re recruiting volunteers to take part in a virtual phone bank and anybody can participate from the comfort of their own home. You’ll be calling our own supporters and asking them to host a LIVESTRONG Day event to help us achieve our goal of 1,000 events across the globe. It’s easy and it will help make a big difference.

To sign up just email us at livestrongday@livestrong.org.

We have two nights available:
Wednesday, September…

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The following was produced by our friends at Alpheus Media. Thank you for your continued support of LIVESTRONG.

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The following video was produced by our dear friends at Alpheus Media. Thank you for your unwavering support of LIVESTRONG

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