Cyclists hit the road for the Ride to Conquer Cancer

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – The more than 2,000 people taking part in this weekend’s Ride to Conquer Cancer event have raised $8.4 million for cancer research.

The ride, which is in its seventh year, has already brought in more than $60 million for life-saving medical research. Cyclists are riding their bikes from Cloverdale to Seattle over two days.

“They’ll camp in Mount Vernon and then make our way to Seattle on Sunday. Some riders will turn around and ride home and end at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds on Sunday afternoon,” says Doug Nelson, CEO of the BC Cancer Foundation. He adds there is some good news about cancer research in BC — it’s working. “Dollars raised from this event are transforming the lives of patients who are diagnosed and giving oncologists more and more often, the confidence to say ‘cure.'”

Nelson says the ride is an important step to bring more awareness to the disease which affects thousands of British Columbians and their families every year. “More than one in three of us will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in our life. This year there will be a little over 25,000 people diagnosed with cancer and we’ll lose about 9,000 British Columbians to cancer in 2015, that’s why this ride touches so many people.”

The number one form of cancer that kills people in BC is lung cancer, colorectal, breast and prostate are the other more common types of the disease.

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