2010 Team Sarcoma events are coming!

Planning is in progress for dozens of events around the world during International Sarcoma Awareness Week: July 17-25, 2010.

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2009 Team Sarcoma / PSSRF Walk, Run or Cycle

Sunday, July 19, 2009
West Deptford, NJ

UPDATE: There were 168 participants at this event!

The Peter Skelton Sarcoma Research Foundation and the Joan Karnell Cancer Center at Pennsylvania Hospital, in conjunction with the Team Sarcoma Initiative, will host its third PSSRF Team Sarcoma Walk, Run or Cycle.  Lots of fruit, water and pretzels will be on hand as well as t-shirts, bracelets and many staff, patients, family & friends.

Cycling will begin at 7:30; the walk will start at 8:30, and the run will start at 9:00.

The registration fee is $25 (pre) and $30 same-day. Registration is available now! Visit  www.sarcomaps.org for more information.

• Invite your friends to this event on Facebook!
• Read about this event in the Gloucester County Times.

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2008 Team Sarcoma / New Jersey – Basking Ridge

Report: On Saturday July 19, 2008, twenty cyclists joined the Team Sarcoma New Jersey Bike Ride in Morristown, NJ. Organized by Tom Swartz, the ride brought together two sarcoma survivors, and the family and friends of other sarcoma patients, or those lost to sarcoma. The ride kicked off with all cyclists riding through the forested Loantaka Brook Reservation. After four miles the riders separated into two groups, one group cycling a 30 mile route, and one group cycling a 16 mile route. The 16 mile riders were treated to a hidden treasure of country roads in New Jersey. The 30 mile riders cycled around the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, and making a stop at the Raptor Trust – a sanctuary for large birds (hawks, eagles, owls, vultures). All riders met back at the Loantaka Brook Reservation for a picnic lunch.

Everyone had a great time and enjoyed the ride. Liddy Shriver, Tom’s spouse, cycled some of these same roads before succumbing to Ewing’s sarcoma in January 2004. Liddy would have been very pleased that a great group of people cycled together, her favorite thing to do.

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2008 Team Sarcoma/ Peter Skelton Sarcoma Research Foundation

Report: Our 2nd annual Team Sarcoma event was held July 20, 2008 at RiverWinds in Thorofare New Jersey. We had 115 participants. A group from North Jersey, Union, drove two hours to join us. We had 3 survivors this year; Kristine Walinski, Patricia Dempsey and Jeff Mortimer as well as the parent of another who could not attend. Three of these survivors are being treated at the Joan Karnell Cancer Center at Pennsylvania Hospital. Proceeds this year benefit them as well as the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative.

We started the morning with fruit donated by Albert’s Organics and distributed t-shirts sponsored by Steven Anuszewski, Financial Planner, Woodbury New Jersey. After the walk, run we enjoyed some pretzels donated by Ellen Reese and of course water the entire morning partially donated by Shop Rite of West Deptford and myself. It was a wonderful event with our survivors spending time with each other and too many of us honoring those we have lost to sarcoma.

This is our inspiration: To see that those who suffer now and in the future get a chance at survival. There has to be earlier detection, true treatments and the knowledge of what is causing this. The more we get the word out, the more people are coming forward with so many different types of sarcoma that it should not be considered a “forgotten cancer”. The statistics, I feel, are not true. There are way more people affected by this than the facts are stating. We will continue to work towards our goal, never giving up or forgetting.

There is no way we would miss next year, or the year after etc…. We look forward to being a part of this initiative for a very long time!

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2007 Team Sarcoma / Peter Skelton Sarcoma Research Foundation

The Peter Skelton Sarcoma Research Foundation (Team PSSRF) held its “1st Annual Walk, Run, or Cycle for Sarcoma” event on July 22 at the Riverwinds in West Deptford, New Jersey. There was a light lunch afterwards.

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