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Run Scared 10K, 5K and 2 Mile run/walk
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Seward Park
or Your Neighborhood (virtual option)
Benefiting The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
About LLS
The Leukemia & Lymphoma society (LLS) is at the forefront of the fight to cure blood cancer. They are the largest nonprofit dedicated to creating a world without blood cancers. Since 1949, LLS has invested more than $1.6 billion in groundbreaking research, pioneering many of today's most innovative approaches. LLS is a global leader in the fight against blood cancer. Learn more at WWW.LLS.ORG
This year's race dedicated to: Kyrie
Kyrie was diagnosed with MLL- rearranged infant ALL Leukemia (MLL-r iALL) which is a rare highly aggressive type of childhood leukemia, when she was only 4months old. Kyrie did a CAR-T Cell Therapy Trial, went into remission for about 6 weeks, but relapsed a week before she was scheduled to get a bone marrow transplant in June 2021. They found that when she relapsed it had come back not only with ALL Leukemia but also AML Leukemia. She then underwent extensive chemo to get her back into remission. She was able to get a bone marrow transplant on October 13th, 2021, but the cancer came back in March of this year. She has been undergoing Blina (Blinatumomab) treatments since then. With Blina, there are 6 cycles, each one is 28 days long and runs through a pic line in her arm 24/7 during each 28-day cycle. She wears a little black backpack that holds the bag of Blina 24/7 during the entire cycle. She gets 2 weeks off where she isn’t connected to any lines or anything in between each Blina cycle. She is currently on her 5th cycle of Blina and only has one more after this. Then she will undergo maintenance chemo.
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