Komen Race for the Cure

Join us for our 15th Annual Race for the Cure  Saturday, June 2nd, 2012.  

On Your Mark...Get Set...Go!!

Registration is now open!  Click here to register.

The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure® Series is the largest series of 5K runs/fitness walks in the world.  The Race raises significant funds and awareness for the fight against breast cancer, celebrates breast cancer survivorship, and honors those who have lost their battle with the disease.  Since its inception in 1983, the Komen Race for the Cure series has grown from one local Race with 800 participants to a global series of more than 120 Races with more than 1 million people expected to participate in 2012.

Up to 75 percent of the net proceeds generated by the Race stays in our expanding service area to provide breast health research, diagnostics, screening, treatment, services, and education for uninsured or underinsured women and men.  The remaining 25 percent goes to fund national research to discover the causes of breast cancer and, ultimately, its cures.  Through 2011, our own UW Hospital has received almost $4 million in National Komen Research Grants.

Your donation and fundraising efforts provide women and men in South Central Wisconsin with services that have literally saved lives. You help make the following programs possible:

• Free mammograms and diagnostics
• Medical treatment for qualified breast cancer patients who cannot afford care, including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation
• Support services including support groups, assistance with finding financial resources, prescription refills and transportation to medical appointments
• Education about the warning signs of breast cancer, methods of early detection and the latest treatment options
• Cutting edge research to find a cure for breast cancer       

Thank you to all of our past Race for the Cure participants, fundraisers, and donors. 

We will see you on June 2nd!