Why Do We Walk Ahead for a Brain Tumor Cure?

Because 215,000 people are stricken with brain tumors in America every year. About 45,000 of these individuals suffer primary tumors, which originate in the brain without warning and often without any known cause. An additional 170,000 people suffer metastatic brain tumors, whose source is a cancer elsewhere in the body.

We also Walk Ahead because brain tumors are becoming more common. During the last two decades, the incidence of brain tumors has increased 22 percent overall and 55 percent in people over 65 years of age.

Proceeds from Walk Ahead will support research and education at the UC Brain Tumor Center.

The Brain Tumor Center is one of seven specialty centers within the UC Neuroscience Institute and is a close affiliate of the renowned Mayfield Clinic neurosurgical practice and several specialty departments of UC Physicians. The Brain Tumor Center is working hard to treat brain tumors, to find cures, and to understand why these tumors occur. The Center’s multidisciplinary clinical team of specialists uses multiple tumor-fighting therapies, from implantable chemotherapy wafers to shaped-beam radiation to promising vaccines. The Center makes new therapies available to patients through carefully managed clinical trials.

The Walk Ahead Planning Committee is proud to support the UC Brain Tumor Center through our 5-kilometer walk/run.

We hope to see you on Oct. 2, 2011!

Wally Pagan and Christopher Knueven
Walk Ahead Co-Chairs