Click on the button,  and we will see you September 19, 2010!
Our official team name is Femme Fus.

Can’t join us? Please consider a donation on behalf of FemmeFus.

Many thanks for your help in our Race for the Cure!

Some encouragement from the Peach herself:

In 2008 Team Femme Fus raised $14,403 and placed 2nd overall in team fundraising
2nd out of 1,037 teams!!!!!

In 2009, Team Femme Fus raised $5,477 and took 13th place overall
13th out of 1,196 teams!!!

This year we’d like to shoot to #1!!!!  Please help!

Ever wonder where the money goes?  I sure do.  The majority of the money raised in Oregon stays to help patients in Oregon – 75% of it to be exact.  The other 25% goes to the national Komen organization.  This year four major research grants from that national fund came back to Oregon  – 3 of the 4 grants went to OHSU and 1 went to Providence.  So the majority of the money we raise here stays here to help the people we know.

I was diagnosed with “Triple Negative” breast cancer 3 years ago now.  This form of breast cancer carries one of the worst prognoses with the highest incidence of resistant, aggressive recurrence, usually within the first 5 years after diagnosis.  Luckily only 15% of breast cancers are of this type.  Part of the problem is that up to this point there have been no real effective treatments identified for triple negative disease.  However, in the last year PARP inhibitors have surfaced as a potential treatment to slow metastatic triple negative cancer.  Research funding, largely from Komen, allowed for this discovery. Let’s help the researchers find something to prevent metastatic spread next….

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