B.C. cycling fundraiser to battle cancer, Tour de Cure, hits the road this August – Okanagan | 24CA News
One month from now, cyclists from throughout the province will participate in a yearly fundraiser to battle most cancers.
The Tour de Cure will run Aug. 26-27 and can see cyclists pedal from Cloverdale to Hope. Funds raised can be used for most cancers care and analysis.
To date, greater than $116 million has been raised because the occasion’s inception in 2009. Some of these funds have made their approach into the Okanagan, together with the most cancers clinic in Kelowna.
The funds are credited for every kind of cancer-care enhancements, together with a multi-million-dollar scanner bought three years in the past.
Cris Wynne is the supervisor of regional centre companies at Kelowna’s most cancers clinic. He’s additionally an enormous supporter of the trigger.
“Getting to know the patients on a daily basis and creating that bond with them when they’re going through treatment, through their ups and downs really encouraged me to give back,” Wynne informed Global News.
Today, the B.C. Cancer Foundation is making an attempt to lift $6.1 million for a brand new systemic remedy unit in Kelowna.
Wynne says the unit “is going to advance cancer treatment here using advanced chemotherapy and immunotherapy to kill cancer cells.”
Riders within the occasion can select between a 100-km journey and one which’s longer at 160 km. While each are lengthy, Wynne says it’s nothing in comparison with what these combating most cancers undergo.
“You can’t really imagine what they go through,” mentioned Wynne.
“So putting yourself through that journey on a two-day event riding 160 kilometres for the first day, it can’t equal to what they do on a daily basis.”
More details about the occasion is out there on-line.
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