In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, The American Cancer Society is making its annual trip to Dayton for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk.
The walk will be taking place at Fifth Third Field on October 18 from 8a.m. to 10a.m. Along with help from volunteers and sponsors, the event is being coordinated by Denise Elsas, who is the specialist community event manager.
Denise has helped run this event for eight years. This will be the third year that Fifth Third Field has allowed them to use their field for the walk.
“Strides Against Breast Cancer is important because it is an opportunity for breast cancer survivors and their caregivers to come out and fight back against breast cancer,” said Elsas.
The goal of the walk is to help bring awareness to breast cancer, and to help raise funds for a cure. Last year, MSABC had 11,000 participants which helped raise $470,000. Nationwide, they had over 1.2 million participants and raised over $60 million.
Since 1993, more than 9 million supporters all over the United States have helped raise over $528 million to help fight breast cancer through Making Strides events.
“The money raised through the event goes to breast cancer research, as well as the American Cancer Society’s breast cancer programs and services,” said Elsas.
The goal for this year’s event is to have 12,000 participants and to hopefully reach over $500,000, according to Elsas.
“We would love to invite everyone to come out and support breast cancer survivors. It’s a great event and allows folks the opportunity to fight back against cancer, ” said Elsas.