This coming week, nine different Niketown Run Clubs have offered to do LIVESTRONG Night in conjunction with their free run night. We invite everyone to come out and run with LIVESTRONG.

Here is the schedule for next week.

West
Portland – Monday July 19 530 PM
Denver – Tuesday, July 20 530 PM
Seattle – Tuesday, July 20 600 PM
San Francisco – Wednesday, July 21 600 PM
Los Angeles- Thursday, July 22 630 PM

Central
Chicago – Thursday, 7/22 600 PM

East
New York City – Tuesday, 7/20 600 PM (Survivor Africa Cast…

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The American Century Classic took place this weekend at the Edgewood Country Club in beautiful Lake Tahoe. Over 80 celebrities battled it out to win bragging rights and a hefty $600,000 purse. LIVESTRONG was proud to be the signature charity of the event raising awareness of the foundation and our mission to inspire and empower people affected by cancer. We were able to interview a few of the celebrities and volunteers about their cancer connections. Here’s what they had to say.

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When asked why he came out of retirement, Lance named a single reason: to make the fight against cancer a global priority. Lance has used the public stage of the Tour de France to increase international awareness about the cancer fight. Now it’s your turn!

Inspired by

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Clinical trials have, in many cases, changed the world of cancer from that of managing uniformly deadly diseases to striving for chronic care or even cure. Carefully observing patients to understand which treatments work best has led to cure in the vast majority of patients with early stage cancers, or with advanced and metastatic cancers like testicular cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). To know best how and when to use a new treatment, patients who receive it must be carefully monitored for side effects and for tumor response, and that is the fundamental idea behind a…

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Competing in this year’s Race Across America was an experience that, for me, involved just about every conceivable human emotion and condition: Joy and sadness; comfort and pain; periods of strength and endurance, punctuated by moments of abject exhaustion when I could not imagine turning the pedals one more time.

Race Across America (RAAM) is a 3,000 mile bicycle race from California to Maryland. The entire time I was on the bike, I thought of my mother, Jean, who lost her battle with stage four lung cancer last autumn after four brave years of living strong with the…

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