Conquering and curring brain tumors - once and for all
May 3, 2020
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National Brain Tumor Society’s top priority is the health of the brain tumor community. Due to the CDC’s recommendations, our 23rd Annual Race for Hope-DC will be virtual. While we’re disappointed we won’t be able to see everyone in person, NBTS remains committed to rallying the Race for Hope brain tumor community in an inspiring day of honor, remembrance, hope, and unity for all those who’ve been impacted by this disease and hope you’ll join us online.
So, what will this virtual event entail? We're planning a video program that will air on May 3, 2020 accessible on Facebook and YouTube. Our Virtual Wall of Hope Slideshow will kick-off the morning with the main program beginning at 10 am EST. We'll be checking in with some of our Race for Hope teams, honor our survivors, provide a research update, share inspirational stories from our Race for Hope Community and get you on your feet to do your own virtual Race for Hope from wherever you are (socially-distant and safe). Please stay tuned for updates on Facebook and in the important emails we'll be sending your way over the coming weeks. See you virtually on May 3rd!
Here are 4 easy things you can do today:
1. Join BethAnn for a virtual 5K with Team BT by Joining Today!
2. Ask 5 friends to register for the virtual Race for Hope All registrants will be encouraged to do their own walk/run and will receive a Race for Hope shirt in the mail after May 3rd.
3. Start a Facebook Fundraiser – small donations add up! To sync your fundraiser with your Race for Hope-DC fundraising page, look for the FB fundraiser icon in your Participant Center.
4. Contribute a photo for the Wall of Hope slideshow in honor of your brain tumor survivor or in memory of your loved one lost to a brain tumor. Email submission with honoree’s name to racedc@curebraintumor.org by tomorrow, April 17th.
Every year we are grateful to the Race for Hope community who continues to bring hope and inspiration to this event after 23 years. This year, more than ever, we are so appreciative of the participants and sponsors who have stuck with us during these trying times, recognizing that the need for brain tumor research isn’t lessened because of COVID-19.
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Race for Hope - DC 5K Run/Walk
National Brain Tumor Society
May 3, 2020
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which are the most efficient way to give. After clicking on the link above, click on the "DONATE to Team" button on the right side of the page. Don't worry, you won't get stuck having to run!
If you are unable to donate online, please mail or fax the completed form (see below) to: Race for Hope - DC, c/o National Brian Tumor Society 55 Chapel Street, Suite 200
Newton, MA 02458
Donations made with credit cards can also be faxed to 617.924.9998.
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| 2017 World Marathon Challenge |
Pledge a mile. Post a #Selfeet.
Defeat Brain Cancer.
From January 23-29, across 183 miles and within 168 hours, BethAnn will be competing in the 2017 World Marathon Challenge.
As most of you know, BethAnn is a fearless endurance athlete living with brain cancer, and she has helped raised more than $835,000 for brain cancer research. With her participation in The World Marathon Challenge she hopes to reach her ultimate goal of $1,000,000.
The World Marathon Challenge is an amazing logistical and physical challenge to run seven marathons on seven continents in seven consecutive days. A challenge that ranks 4th on the 7 Ultimate Achievements in Endurance Running history.
By pledging a donation towards every mile BethAnn accomplishes you will be helping to support ABC² (Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure), a Washington DC-based venture philanthropy nonprofit organization that drives cutting-edge research and treatments for brain cancer & brain tumors.
BethAnn will be wearing hand-designed New Balance shoes dedicated to 14 brain cancer survivors living in different areas around the world. You can learn more about the amazing shoe designers and BethAnn's preparation for the challenge across social media.
Please follow along as she takes on this epic event!
After you pledge please post your #Selfeet by using the hashtag and tagging a couple friends, BethAnn included. Please follow/friend across all platforms!
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Neema Hospitality Hosts 3rd Annual Summer Hotel Promotion to Support Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure
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The promotion is inspired by BethAnn Telford, a brain cancer survivor and Ironman athlete, who will compete in the 2017 World Marathon Challenge where she will run seven marathons on seven continents in seven days.
This summer, Neema Hospitality will once again donate $5 per night at its nine hotel properties in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland to support ABC2 (Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure), a non-profit research organization. BethAnn Telford is the inspiration behind the summer charity promotion. Telford is a brain cancer survivor, Ironman World Champion triathlete and childhood friend of Sandeep Thakrar, President of Neema Hospitality.
The promotion will be valid from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day 2016. Click the link below to take advantage of the charity promotion at the participating properties: http://www.neemahospitality.com/hotels.html
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7 Marathons - 7 Continents - 7 Days
January 23, 2017
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Exciting news for the New Year into 2017! I have been accepted as an entrant into the 2017 World Marathon Challenge, which is an amazing physical challenge to run 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days (http://www.worldmarathonchallenge.com). It is truly an epic race across the world including the cold, vast expanse of Antarctica! My training for this amazing race begins next year and I am working with Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2)(www.abc2.org or www.btwmc.org) to use my challenge entry to support brain cancer research.
Please follow me through out the year as I post more about this challenge, my training, and efforts to raise research funds to find a cure brain cancer!
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For Those Who Dare
Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure
Washington Business Journal
November 20, 2015
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Washington Business Journal, DC - Brain cancer breakthroughs don’t follow conventional wisdom. Neither do we. Accelerated Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2) partners with scientists, physicians and companies to push the limits of science and technology. ABC2 has more than 100 grants totaling over $20 Million to world-renowned researchers and physician-scientists from 54 institutions and invest in high risk, high reward research. ABC2's has advanced more than a dozen new treatments into the clinic.
One of the most straightforward ways that you can help our cutting-edge scientific ventures is by donating. Your dollars will advance desperately in need of funding.
To DONATE or for more information about the ABC2 pursuit of an advanced breakthrough go to www.abc2.org.
The Washington Business Journal advertising supplement also featured BethAnn Telford, an Ironman World Championship triathlete, serial marathoner and 10-year brain cacner survior, as her and a team of adventurers raced across the Grand Canyon National Park from the North to South Rim in October of 2015.
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Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, Inc.On October 3, 2015 a small team of warriors will stand together on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon with a shared mission: to beat brain cancer.
The Rim-to-Rim will take the team from the North Rim down to the canyon floor, across the canyon, then up to the South Rim over 21.1 miles and more than 10,000 feet of elevation change. It is a powerful metaphor for the race to end brain cancer. The canyon represents the valley of death of underfunded research. We know that funding brain tumor research will change the future for those diagnosed with brain cancer and that additional funding is needed to help ensure this future.
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With your help we can not only accomplish a Rim-to- Rim run, we can capture and share the story of two women whose impact will extend beyond the walls of the canyon, inspiring and giving hope to those battling brain cancer.
Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure and 3000 Miles to a Cure share the goal to end brain cancer. We see the Rim-to-Rim effort as an incredible opportunity to ignite hope and action by creating a documentary film to tell the powerful story of two women racing to cross the valley of death.
Your support will help us reach our $100,000 fundraising goal and produce the "Crossing the Canyon" short documentary film, which will help Maria and BethAnn continue to inspire others!
Click here to learn more about 3000 Miles to the Cure.
Click here to Donate.
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Thank you for visiting TeamBT's website!In the winter of 2005, I was diagnosed with brain cancer. I was scared and thought my life would never be the same again. I had my first surgery in the spring of that year and was determined to not let my illness limit what I could do in the future. I would fight to regain my abilities and to push my boundaries, if only to say I am still here and fighting. Having run several marathons before my diagnosis, I slowly learned to walk and run again and was able to complete the Marine Corp Marathon six months later in the fall. Over the last three years, I had the wonderful opportunity to run the Boston Marathon and was able to re-qualify (and set a PR) for Boston in my Father's hometown of Scranton, PA at the Steamtown Marathon this fall and have registered for the Boston Marathon in 2012. Though qualifying for and running the Boston Marathon has been extremely difficult and trying, the sense of accomplishment and expanding my boundaries was helped by the confidence I gained when I finished my first Eagleman 70.3 triathlon and the Lake Placid Ironman.
In 2012, I realized a life-long dream by winning an opportunity to compete in the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii. It was an amazing experience that I was able to share with my family and friends as I crossed the finish line with a flag of "hope" with the names of the many children I have met afflicted with brain cancer written across the front. To read more about my experience on the "Ironman World Championship" tab.
BethAnn Telford, Survivor
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Relay for Life: "These People Inspire You"
The Connection Newspaper
by Bonnie Hobbs
May 26, 2015
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The annual Relay for Life raises money for the American Cancer Society. And for Erin Hamm, of Centreville’s Manorgate community, it’s personal. “I started participating a few years ago,” she said “My husband had cancer and a friend of mine needed more teammates for her Relay team. So I dragged my husband along and he loved it, and we’ve been doing it ever since.” Then last year, she was diagnosed with cancer. But, said Hamm, “You hear stories like this all the time. And we want to tell people that cancer’s not a death sentence, anymore — and this event is one thing we can do to help.” The Relay for Life is held throughout the U.S. Locally, it was in Centreville from 2008-11; and this year’s eighth annual event will be held for the fourth time at the nZone, 14550 Lee Road in Chantilly. It’s set for Saturday, June 6, from 2 p.m.-midnight. For more information, to donate or participate, go to www.RelayForLife.org/ChantillyVA. For more information about BethAnn Telford please click the link or article to the right.
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Brain Cancer Survivor BethAnn Telford Carries hope with Her in Today's Jemez Mountain Trail Races
Los Alamos Daily Post
by Bonnie J. Gordon
May 23, 2015
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Like hundreds of other competitors in today’s 10th annual Jemez Mountain Trail Races, BethAnn Telford got up this morning, put on her running shoes and hit the trail with a couple close friends. But there’s something special about Telford. She’s running to find a cure for pediatric brain cancer. And she herself is a brain cancer victim.
Telford is running the 50K race with her good friends Sarah Domnarski, who traveled with her from Virginia, and Michelle Hall of Los Alamos. Hall met Telford when she joined a running group in Washington, D.C. Telford convinced Hall to run the Boston Marathon. “Beth inspires everyone around her,” Hall said.For more information about the Jemez Mountain Trail Races or BethAnn Telford please click the links or article to the right.
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Pennsylvania-Based Hotel Group -- neema hospitatlity -- to Support Brain Cancer Research Charity for Second Year in a Row
Business Wire
May 14, 2015
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Due to the success of the Charity promotion last year which generated over 500 room nights and a $2700 donation to Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, Neema Hospitality will again in 2015 donate $5 per night at its ten hotel properties in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland to support Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, a non-profit research organization. BethAnn Telford is the inspiration behind the summer charity promotion. Telford is a brain cancer survivor, who despite suffering from seizures from the malignant glioblastoma in her brain, has completed the Boston Marathon four times, the Marine Corp Marathon twelve times, the Lake Placid Ironman twice and the Kona Ironman World Championships once in 2012.For more information about Neema Hospitality or BethAnn Telford please click the links or article to the right.
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College Park resident finds purpose in walking
College Park Community Paper
March 7, 2015
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When Mercedes Albert first began walking it was merely a form of exercise for her physical health. But as her own physical health improved, that of her younger sister, Maria Mesa, worsened.
Mesa was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a rare form of brain cancer, December 17, 2010.
“They gave her one year with treatment, and six months without. She was so strong, so faithful, that she lasted three years and seven months,” Albert said.
Mesa was 60 when she passed, and Albert has dedicated her walking to a new purpose: joining 5K walks for cancer.
Most recently Albert was the team captain of a walk in West Palm Beach organized by Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, a nonprofit organization founded by a man who had the same type of cancer as her sister.
Albert’s team name was “I Did It My Way—In Loving Memory of Maria Mesa,” and the team raised $16,825 for cancer research.
On May 3, Albert will be joining Team BT in the Race for Hope in Washington, D.C. The team captain, BethAnn Telford, has been a brain cancer survivor for 10 years.For more information about Mercedes Albert please go to College Park Community Paper or click the Article to the right.
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The Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim Challenge 2015
March 28, 2015
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3000 Miles to a Cure’s mission is to end brain cancer by raising funds for research, extending an open invitation to unite in hope and action for the cure. In October 2015, BethAnn Telford and Maria Parker are teaming up and taking on the grueling Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim challenge on foot and equipped with Google Glass to raise money for brain cancer research.
For more information about Morgan Leary, BethAnn Telford and the Rim-to-Rim Challenge www.3000milestoacure.com or click the News Release to the right.
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Brain Cancer Survivor to Compete in the
119th Boston Marathon in Honor of Morgan Leary,
a Pediatric Brain Tumor Patient
March 7, 2015
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On April 20th of this year, I will be running my fourth Boston Marathon in honor of a beautiful little girl who is six years old and battling brain cancer from Center Moriches, New York (Suffolk County). Her name is Morgan Leary and she was suddenly and unexpectedly diagnosed with a PNET brain tumor (Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor) on August 15th of last year. Unfortunately, her tumor is aggressive and she has undergone several brain surgeries to remove as much of the tumor as possible. She is also currently undergoing chemotherapy and radiation in the hopes of controlling her terrible disease.
For more information about Morgan Leary, please go to United By Morgan and for BethAnn Telford, please visit the website www.teambt.org. For a copy of the News Release, click the image to right.
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"We Believe" by David Cook
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