12-hour cardio-thon to raise money for Lance Armstrong Foundation
February 1, 2005 14:04

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Omicron Delta Kappa, a leadership honor society, will sponsor Givestrong-a-thon, a fund-raiser for the Lance Armstrong Foundation on Friday. The event will be a 12-hour cardio-thon held at the MU Student Recreation Complex from 8 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday. ODK President Andy Fluhart said he came up with the idea for the fund-raiser this past fall. He said he was interested in raising money for the foundation and wanted ODK to sponsor a service event. Fluhart, who was a finalist for the foundation?s Junior Spirit of Survivorship Award, was diagnosed in October with a relapse of Ewing?s Sarcoma, a rare cancer. ...

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Fourteen-year-old Rebecca Tullos suffers from Ewing's Sarcoma, a form of cancer that starts in the bone or soft tissue. She is homebound and unable to attend the school's 1:30 p.m. parade.

Now, most of the students wear "Live Strong" bracelets, which is the motto for the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Armstrong, a world cyclist, is a cancer survivor.

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Christy Standler walks slowly down the hallway at Primary Children's Medical Center, hands firmly clutching a walker. In the exercise room, she strains to lift her arms to catch a big ball tossed gently by her occupational therapist.

It's not what the 12-year-old from Cedar City expected to be doing with the new year. It is also far more than even medical experts thought she could accomplish. Many of them doubted she'd walk again. Christy has Ewing's sarcoma, an aggressive cancer that can settle most anywhere in the body. Her tumor's location hid the disease for a long time.

Abby Grant was a typical 9-year-old, active in sports and school, when she was diagnosed with a form of bone cancer, Ewing's sarcoma, last summer. That news rocked the household of Dale ('85) and Joanie (Forsberg '86) Grant, a pair of Gonzaga alums who have made a nice home for their family in Rogers, Ark. The Grants also have a 13-year-old son Nick.

... The GU basketball team also has been actively involved with several other cancer-stricken children in the local area, and welcomed a dozen of them to a home game in December. Coach Few and wife Marcy are co-chairs of the Coaches vs. Cancer drive, which in 2004 netted over $400,000 for cancer care and research.
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Christy Standler walks slowly down the hallway at Primary Children's Medical Center, hands firmly clutching a walker. In the exercise room, she strains to lift her arms to catch a big ball tossed gently by her occupational therapist.

Christy has Ewing's sarcoma, an aggressive cancer that can settle most anywhere in the body. Her tumor's location hid the disease for a long time.

Honor society member, candidate for president of the student body at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Homecoming king runner-up, participant in dozens of campus activities. Fluhart, 22, stays involved despite an illness that doctors have told him could be fatal within the year. First diagnosed with the disease in January 2003, Fluhart underwent intensive chemotherapy to fight the disease into remission. He learned in October the disease is back.

His latest goal involved trying to set a record from 8 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. yesterday in raising funds for a cure to the disease he has been battling two years - Ewing?s sarcoma, a rare bone cancer.
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ROCK legend Sting and world-renowned painter Jack Vettriano have pitched in to help raise money for a city student?s cancer fund.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/02/16/Tampabay/Hope_rides_in_cranes_.shtml

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Sydney Morning Herald, Sun, 27 Feb 2005 1:32 PM PST Artificial bone aids young cancer victim Chloe Cutts is one in a million - and not just because she's the world's youngest patient to undergo ground-breaking orthopaedic surgery.

Chloe, from Manjimup in Western Australia, was last year diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma - a type of bone cancer that hits just one in a million children and young adults.

Although she'll require further chemotherapy in Perth, Dr Woodgate said cure rates for children with Ewing's sarcoma were estimated at around 70 per cent at diagnosis.