Voices That Will be Heard

An ESUN Article

Bruce Shriver, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, ESUN

Scores of people are working to make the Team Sarcoma 2006 project a truly international event focused on raising public awareness of sarcoma and raising funds for sarcoma research. It now appears that there will be well over 500 people involved in a variety of events that will be occurring during July 1-7, 2006 at many different locations worldwide. Plan to join in one of these events if you are anywhere nearby. You will be more than welcomed by everyone and I'm sure you will enjoy it as well.

The 48 participants in Denmark who will be on the Team Sarcoma 2006 Bike Tour consist of patients, caregivers, survivors, family members and friends who have lost a loved one to sarcoma, volunteers and other who are coming from Ireland, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Taiwan and many states within the USA. If you’re in Denmark during July 1-7, please join this group for a day trip ride.

These participants will be joined by a number of local Team Sarcomas that are being formed in various countries throughout the world. A local Team Sarcoma is a group of people who "Bike, Run, Walk, or Swim for Sarcoma" on one or more of the days that Team Sarcoma 2006 is biking in Denmark. As part of this effort, Team Sarcomas are currently being formed at the following cancer centers that are acknowledged to be among the finest such centers in the entire world. Each of these teams involves oncologists, nurses, and sarcoma patients, caregivers, and survivors, families and friends who are joining together to support the activity:

The West German Cancer Center in Essen has formed a Team Sarcoma/Essen that is planning a 35 KM Bike Tour. Team Sarcoma/Essen is also known as Team Sarcoma/GIST or Team Sarcoma/GSI as GIST Support International was integrally involved in its formation.

Several sarcoma advocacy organizations are also involved in our efforts and the following groups have already or are in the process of forming a Team Sarcoma:

We are currently working with the Sarcoma Foundation of America to form a Team Sarcoma. Lastly, various groups of patients, caregivers, survivors and family and friends are forming the following local Team Sarcomas:

and, in the USA:

At the time of this writing, other Team Sarcomas are laying out their plans. We will post information regarding them as soon as we receive it.

It’s not too late to form a Team Sarcoma. Every team, no matter how small, can help bring awareness to this disease and help raise much needed funds for sarcoma research. To find out more details about any of the above events or to form a Team Sarcoma yourself, please send me a note or call me at 914 762 3251 (in New York). We can work together to help bring about change. There is strength in numbers. Our voices will be heard. We can help fund research that may be part of finding a cure for sarcoma. We welcome your participation.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you,

Bruce D. Shriver, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, ESUN


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