Along with launching the Nike LIVESTRONG Collection globally last week, our partners at Nike have been hard at work bringing back one of last year’s favorite visitors to the Tour de France.

The Chalkbot makes it easy for you to be part of the Tour – sending your message of hope and inspiration to the 28 million people around the world fighting cancer today. Chalkbot follows the great cycling tradition of writing inspirational messages along the course for riders to see.

You can submit your Chalkbot message online at www.livestrong.org/chalkbot or via…

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We recently interviewed a dynamic kid named Owain Weinert, a 9 year old in the midst of fighting leukemia. Owain and his family participated in this year’s Seattle LIVESTRONG Challenge. After interviewing Owain we talked to his parents about what it is like to have a child in treatment and what advice they can offer other parents facing this battle. Owain’s dad Alex offered his insight.

What are three pieces of advice that you can offer other parents?

ACCEPT THE NEW NORMAL:
For us, it was really important to stop and say, “ok, this is the…

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Most nurses don’t know the numerous disparities that exist for adolecent and young adult cancer survivors. More than 70,000 young adults are diagnosed with cancer yearly, a diagnosis that is nearly EIGHT times more common than during the first 15 years of life. Compared with younger and older groups, AYAs have experienced little or no improvement in survival rates in more than two decades.

No matter your role or field of nursing practice, you can impact AYA cancer. LIVESTRONG and the Nurse Oncology Education Program have collaborated to create a free, video continuing nursing education (CNE) opportunity for…

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As Lance takes the fight against cancer to a global stage; over 2,000 participants are expected to hit the streets of San Jose. The LIVESTRONG Challenge San Jose is back for the third year. After a great kick-off to the Challenge series in Seattle, the LIVESTRONG Challenge will make its next stop this weekend in sunny San Jose, CA.

Not registered yet? Don’t worry. There is still time to join us. Whether you would are in the mood to take on the hill of Metcalf in the century or take on one of the shorter 10 or 20…

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Throughout the Tour de France, Team RadioShack and Lance will honor some of the 28 million people throughout the world affected by cancer.

During the Tour of California, LIVESTRONG sponsored a virtual bike race, the I Ride For…campaign.  Participants rode for friends and loved ones affected by cancer and then collected cheers from supporters.  The names that received the most cheers will appear on Team RadioShack’s bikes throughout the Tour.

We’re enormously grateful to everyone who participated and shared tales of how cancer has touched their lives.

For the next three weeks, as Team RadioShack competes in the Tour…

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