Running for Alice

Running for Alice is a privilege, something I'm excited to do! Anyone of us could get this kind of news, people get this news everyday. So why run for Alice? Because she inspires life, joy, and courage, and running for her gives me hope.

A little bit from Alice.....

"Most importantly, the targetted chemotherapy treatment I'm on is working to keep the cancer at bay ..."for now". Those two words are the rest of the answer that I often leave out, but in reality I still have advanced lung cancer and it remains incurable. We know that at some point the sneaky cancer cells will mutate and I'll need to go onto another targetted chemotherapy treatment. I'm hoping that I have really dumb cancer cells and it takes a while for this to happen! I have CT scans every twelve weeks and I'm learning how to manage the anxiety of not knowing the outcome every.single.time.

At this stage the treatment I would go onto next isn't funded by Pharmac here in NZ, which is why I continue to fundraise and why I'm so grateful for all of your generous donations and support.

I hope that taking part in the City to Surf event will also raise important awareness of the prevalence of lung cancer and it's occurrence in younger people and those who haven't been smokers. I have some other fundraising events coming up in November for Lung Cancer Awareness month too so watch this space!"