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Team Sarcoma / West German Cancer Center, Team Sarcoma / Das Lebenhaus and Team Sarcoma / Essen University Hospital

What: Sarcoma Lecture and Bike Tour
When: July 17, 2008 and July 26, 2008
Where: Essen, Germany

As in the previous years, Team Sarcoma / Essen will join the global Team Sarcoma Initiative. The events are collaboration among the West German Cancer Center, Das Lebenhaus and Essen University Hospital. Das Lebenshaus is the first and only patient advocacy group for sarcoma patients in Germany. Das Lebenshaus has already established a broad network for a subgroup of sarcomas, Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST), and is expanding its activities to patients with other sarcomas. The West German Cancer Center has been the first Comprehensive Cancer Center in a Germany and for many years a strong, interdisciplinary focus on the treatment of sarcomas.

On Thursday July 17, Dr. Dr. Hoiczyk and Dr. Taeger will give a lecture on current advances in sarcoma treatment and research, followed by a Q&A session. This event will take place at the Library (Bibliothek) of the Cancer Center (Tumorklinik, GBK-Gebäude) at 7 PM.

Then on July 26, there will be a 3 hour bike tour through the wonderful green surroundings of Essen. The bike tour will be a non-competitive, fun ride, except a small, optional (!) mountain stage, that will again identify the best junior, male, female and senior “racer”. To enable patients with limited physical abilities to join the Tour sarcoma experience, we will also organize a walk within the proximity of the campus. Both groups will then reunite for the now “traditional” picnic at the campus of the university hospital. As last year, we expect to have many participants from our medical sarcoma team (nurses, doctors, social workers) but also, hopefully, an increasing number of patients and their relatives and friends. Besides cold drinks and a barbecue, the get-together after the “race” will offer the chance for discussion and exchange of information.

• For more information: contact Dr. Sebastian Bauer or Kai Pilgermann.

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Team Sarcoma / Veterans for Sarcoma

What: Triathlons for Sarcoma
When and Where: July 13 in Austin, Texas
When and Where: July 20 in Oxnard, California

Veterans for Sarcoma is an organization of Armed Services Veterans (and a few civilian friends) dedicated to increasing awareness of sarcoma and raising funds for research assistance. They will be competing in two Triathlon events during the International Sarcoma Awareness Week: the Couples Triathlon on Sunday, July 13, in Austin, Texas; and the Strawberry Fields Triathlon on Sunday, July 20th, in Oxnard, California.

• For more information: contact Kirk Offel.

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Team Sarcoma / Fox Chase Cancer Center

What: Walk for a Cure
When: July 17, 2008 at 5:30pm
Where: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Team Sarcoma Fox Chase event will be held on Thursday, July 17 from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. The event will consist of a brief educational program, followed by a 1.5 mile walk around the perimeter of the main Fox Chase Cancer Center campus. Refreshments will be served following the walk.

• For more information: contact Jamie Dunn.
• Join this event on Facebook: here.

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Team Sarcoma / The Ryan Glenny Grind in North Carolina

What: An In-line Skating Competition
When: July 19, 2008 (Rain Date: July 20)
Where: Boone, North Carolina

Team Sarcoma / The Ryan Glenny Grind will be an in-line skating competition held on July 19 at the Boone Skatepark. Food will be provided, and prizes will be awarded for advanced and beginner/immediate skaters. There will be a special prize of a new pair of skates for the entrant who personally raises the most donations for sarcoma research. The rain date will be July 20.

• For more information: contact John or view the official flyer.
• Join this event on Facebook: here.

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Team Sarcoma / Miles Levin Ride

What: Day and Night Miles Ride
When: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 6pm
Where: Birmingham, Michigan

This event is in memory of Miles Levin, who succumbed to rhabdomyosarcoma on August 25, 2007, at age 18. It is a fundraiser for the UJF Miles Alpern Levin Fund, 6375 Telegraph Rd., Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302. Funds raised are dedicated to supporting the fight against rhabdomyosarcoma, understanding recurrence, and comforting patients and their families. Donations will be accepted on the date of event, and there is no registration fee.

The event will take place on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 and will start in Birmingham, Michigan, at Derby School, Adams Road at Derby Road, just north of Maple Road. A 15 or 35 mile road ride is followed by a night time trail ride. The trail ride requires mountain or cross bikes with illumination. The sponsoring organizations are: Team02, Cadieux Bicycle Club, and Motive Force-Loose Spokes.

• For more information: contact Jon "Yonas" Levin via e-mail or telephone at (248) 388-3854. Or visit the Team o2 / Cadieux Bicycle Club.
• Join this event on Facebook: here.

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Team Sarcoma / Austria - St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung

What: Cycle for Sarcoma
When: July 18, 2008 at 09:00
Where: Greifenstein, Austria

St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung (The Children’s Cancer Research Institute in Vienna, Austria and coordinator of the EC-funded project “Overcoming Cancer With Research”) is inviting everyone who enjoys cycling — hobby cyclists, untrained persons, parents with their kids — to meet at 09:00 at Greifenstein on Friday July 18th on the north bank on the Danube Island to cycle to the Reichsbrücke. It’s the spirit of the community dedicated to raise public awareness of sarcoma that counts, not the physical capacity. We will join the “core” Team Sarcoma” who is biking from Passau, Germany to Vienna and bike with them and enjoy a picnic lunch together.

• For more information: contact Sandra Brezina-Krivda.
• Join this event on Facebook: here.

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Team Sarcoma / New Jersey - Basking Ridge

What: Cycle For Sarcoma
When: July 19, 2008 at 10am
Where: Morristown, New Jersey

Join us for an approximately 30 mile bike ride around the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. The Great Swamp Refuge is located in Morris County, New Jersey, just 26 miles west of Manhattan. It consists of 7,600 acres of varied habitats and has become a resting and feeding area for numerous 244 species of birds. We’ll cycle on mostly flat roads in and around the Swamp. Highlights include The Raptor Trust and George Washington’s Headquarters. The ride will start at 10am at the Loantaka Brook Reservation on South Street in Morristown. A longer supplemental ride to Jockey Hollow is being considered.

• For more information: contact Tom Swartz.
• Join this event on Facebook: here.

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Team Sarcoma / Karen Wyckoff Rein in Sarcoma Foundation

What: Ride in Circles for Sarcoma
When: July 21, 2008
Where: St. Paul, Minnesota

The Eighth Annual Rein In Sarcoma will take place at Como Park in St. Paul on July 21. This is an event for the whole family to enjoy. Join with hundreds of others throughout the upper midwest who want to find a cure for sarcoma cancers. There will be sharing, fellowship, continuous entertainment, music, children’s activities, a silent auction, and of course, the famous Carousel.

Rein in Sarcoma will also be an official closing event of the 2008 Team Sarcoma Initiative’s International Sarcoma Awareness week. Attendees will “ride in circles” on Cafesjian’s Carousel in solidarity with groups across the world to find a cure for sarcomas.

• For more information: Visit the Karen Wyckoff Rein In Sarcoma Fund.
• Join this event on Facebook: here.

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