Laugh for the Cure brings the community together for a night of comedy for a great cause. Tickets are still available for the big event on Friday, March 11, 2022
To help shine a light on Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, WBTV and Susan G. Komen are sharing the stories of breast cancer survivors in their own words.
To help shine a light on Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, WBTV and Susan G. Komen Charlotte are sharing the stories of breast cancer survivors in their own words.
There will still be teams. There will still be a big kick-off that you can watch live. The main difference this year is Komen Charlotte is asking all participants to: “Race where you are.”
Instead of oceans of pink filling the streets of Uptown Charlotte on Saturday, you may see scattered pink around the Charlotte area as people race where they are in this year’s Komen Charlotte Virtual Race for the Cure.
They may not be toeing the start line together, but thousands of people will still walk or run 3.1 miles the first Saturday of October as they do every year, to raise money to find a cure for breast cancer.
Lucy emailed a few weeks before the event, after seeing the TV commercials. We'd never met, but she'd found my email online. She innocently asked what the Race was, and was it for someone like her?
Regina said she started seeing everything differently. Even her medical charts looked artistic – she compared her CT scan to “stars in the sky.” Her creativity in seeing things through a new view led her to express herself in unique ways, including her newfound hobby of writing poetry.
This mother of three adult children, lives in northwest Charlotte and is a full-time realtor. She moves through life fast, with a big smile. She says getting diagnosed with cancer - found in a routine mammogram - opened her eyes.
Now 49-year-old Tina is a smiling, thriving version of herself then – she is most certainly “fine.” But she had to go through 34 sessions of radiation and a lumpectomy to get to this spot. Through it all, she told very few people.
She'd always gone to Komen Charlotte "Race for the Cure" in years past, but now she says the crowds and network of love mean something totally different.
Michelle is an amazing woman in a thousand ways, but her attitude while fighting is what is worth noting as we get closer and closer to “Race for the Cure” this year.
Susan G. Komen, the world’s leading breast cancer organization, announced $26 million in funding for new research projects that focus on metastatic breast cancer.
Two years ago, Julie was on our "Race for the Cure" team. She was fighting, bald and inspired. The next sentence isn't easy to type but it's the truth: One year ago today, Julie died from breast cancer.
She starts chemo Thursday. It’s a stunning turn of events. No word yet how long she’ll take chemo, but probably, she said, “for as long as I can handle it.”
Jen was diagnosed in October of 2015, five months after having her third baby. At the time, she was doing marketing for Novant Health – promoting mammograms was part of her job.
Maureen says her cancer battle gave her a newfound appreciation for life, given her a new relationship with patients, and got her involved with Komen Charlotte Race for the Cure.
WBTV'S Team Molly was the largest Komen Charlotte "Race for the Cure" team last year and THIS YEAR we want to be even stronger in our mission to find a cure for breast cancer and lift up the warriors who fight.
Julie was already signed up for this year’s #TeamMolly. She was one of the first people to register, saying last year’s Race gave her huge support, and she wasn’t going to miss it.
With so much going on last Saturday at Race for the Cure, most people missed when Charlotte breast cancer survivor Carrie Letorney turned around right before the Race started, and saw her boyfriend on one knee.
NASCAR superstar Jimmie Johnson – along with 450 other people, half of whom were survivors – went out to the speedway Wednesday morning to paint the wall pink as a continued effort to showcase the importance of fighting breast cancer in our world.
When I looked at the crowd, I wasn't exactly sure how to start. I knew her story, have lived with daily repercussions of it the past five months, but stared out and didn't know what to say first.
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