Team Savanna’s Smiles to Host Stylin’ Survivors Fundraiser

At 6 p.m. tomorrow, March 28, fashion and fundraising will meet to support the local Pan Mass Challenge team, now in its eighth year.

Savanna James smiled through it all. She smiled as she was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, as a five-inch piece of her skull and the tumor beneath it were removed and as she underwent 48 weeks of radiation and then chemotherapy. She’s now 12 and has been cancer-free for half her life. Savanna’s smiles haven’t stopped, and neither has the Pan Mass Challenge team that found strength in a young girl’s facial expressions and continue to ride and fundraise in her name. At 6 p.m. tonight at the Knights of Columbus in Lexington, Team Savanna’s Smiles will host its Stylin’ Survivors Fundraiser. A benefit fashion show featuring 21 cancer survivors as models and a few local celebrities as special guests, Stylin’ Survivors will help Team Savanna’s …

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4th Annual Resolution Run to Kick Cancer Steps Off Jan. 5

'Think winter running is hard? Try battling cancer,' is the Resolution Run to Kick Cancer's motto and all proceeds from the event will go to the cancer research and care.

The following information was provided by the Resolution Run to Kick Cancer. The fourth annual Resolution Run to Kick Cancer (RR2KC) will kick off the New Year this Saturday, Jan. 5, at 9 a.m. with race registration and a Health and Fitness Expo and an 11 a.m. race start at the Lexington High School Field House. All proceeds from the event will go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer and the Floating Hospital for Children’s Hematology Oncology Unit at Tufts Medical Center. "Think winter running is hard? Try battling cancer.” is the Resolution Run to Kick Cancer’s motto. Last year close to 900 runners and walkers took up the cause.  Already more than 800 runners and walkers …

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Soccer Stars Playing for the Goal of a Lifetime

An all-day soccer tournament among some of the area's premier programs, including Lexington, the sixth annual Kicks for Cancer is scheduled for this Saturday, Sept. 29, at Concord-Carlisle High School.

High school soccer teams are accustomed to scoring goals, but this Saturday, Sept. 29, 12 of the region’s premier programs, including Lexington High, will be focused on another kind of goal: Raising funds for cancer research.  The boys’ varsity teams from Acton-Boxborough, Belmont, Brookline, Concord-Carlisle, Lexington, Lincoln-Sudbury, Newton North, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Woburn will compete in the sixth annual Kicks for Cancer in an effort to raise more than $20,000 for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.    The tournament will be held on the turf fields behind Concord-Carlisle High School at 500 Walden Street in Concord and will begin at 1 p.m. with games between Brookline and Newton North and Lexington and Belmont. The …

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Technological Landscapes: Accelerated Synthetic DNA Replication for Cancer Research

Lexington-based Raindance Technologies provides innovative microdroplet-based solutions that accelerate research and development for human healthcare and industrial markets.

  That living forms reproduce themselves is a wonder. That we understand the process of cell replication borders on the incredulous. The first level of understanding began in 1870 when the biochemist Friedrich Miescher discovered that, in addition to protein, there was an acid contained within the nucleus of living cells. In early 1900, this nucleic acid was determined to be DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). This discovery raised the question as to whether-or-not it is the proteins in living cells or the DNA that is the molecule of heredity. It was not until 1944 that DNA was declared the genetic material. In 1952, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin used X-ray diffraction to discover that the DNA structure was in the form of a helix. Then on…

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Registration Opens Soon for Pan-Mass Cycling Challenge

Last year, 68 Lexington residents raised $466,344 of the $35 million donated by the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (PMC) to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Editor's note: The following information comes from a Pan-Mass Challenge press release. Registration will soon be open for the 33rd annual Pan-Massachusetts Challenge, one of the highest-ranking athletic fundraising events in the country. Last year, 68 Lexington residents raised $466,344 of the $35 million donated by the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (PMC) to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through its Jimmy Fund. This year, registration opens Jan. 17 for the event scheduled to take place on Aug. 4 and 5. This year’s Pan-Massachusetts Challenge will include 11 routes ranging from 25 to 190 miles. Along with local cyclists, participants have come from 36 states and eight countries. More than 3,000 volunteers donate their time to support an …

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Lexington residents help Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Donate $35 million to Dana-Farber

Almost half a mill came from the dozens of Lexington residents who participated in the PMC.

The following is a press release provided by Teak Media Communications for the PMC. Sixty-eight Lexington residents raised $466,344 of the $35 million donated by the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (PMC) to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through its Jimmy Fund. They were among 5,169 cyclists who rode up to 190 miles across Massachusetts to raise money for cancer research and treatment. The 2011 fundraising total is $2 million, or 5.7 percent, more than the PMC gave in 2010 and brings its 32-year Jimmy Fund contribution to $338 million. The PMC is the most successful athletic fundraising event in the nation; it raises and contributes more money to charity than any other. In August, cyclists from eight countries and 37 states rode one of 11 routes…

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Lexington's Burger Prepared to Pedal in Pan-Mass

Todd Burger will participate in his fifth Pan-Mass Challenge this weekend, raising money for cancer research as he rides across the Commonwealth with thousands of others.

Lexington resident and four-time Pan-Mass Challenge veteran, Todd Burger, 58, will set out on Aug. 6 and 7 to ride alongside 5,000 cyclists to raise money for cancer care and research for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through its Jimmy Fund. Burger is taking on not only the 190-mile, two day route, but he is also throwing in 34 additional miles for good measure. Burger will cycle to and from his lodging throughout the weekend and from the ferry dock to Lexington after returning from Provincetown on Sunday. The dedicated cyclist for cancer research will log in 224 miles in two days, something that he says, he hasn’t accomplished since he was in his twenties.  In addition to his physical efforts, Burger has continually volunteered his time at…

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