Why a cancer fundrasier for Caneilia Patterson? Caneilia has been an avid support of Breast Cancer Research her whole adult life, giving a little each time the opporunity presents itself. She has seen numerous friends and several family members with cancer...it is such a horrible disease. Her maternal grandmother spent her younger years in the farm fields and the importance of sunscreen was not known. As her grandmother became older, she battled numerous melamona skin cancers from those years in the field. Thank goodness her grandmother could catch the spots before they ever took over her body and luckily she did not pass away from cancer. Caneilia vividly remembers her grandmother saying "wear sunscreen" and has pictures of her in her wide-brim hat when she'd go outside to tend to her flowers. She learned what caused the skin cancer, did what she could to prevent future cancer from forming, and did her part to educate others, including her grandchildren. Caneilia has spent years herself in the sun and tanning bed. She quit the tanning bed after 10 straight years of sunning and tanning at the age of 23 because of her grandmother's experiences with skin cancer and the likely risk Caneilia was putting herself in.
So it was no surprised when asked "do you want to do this crazy challenge of Hood to Coast with us" that she thought for about a second, maybe 2 seconds, and quickly committed to fundraise for cancer in memory of her grandmother, Estelle Everett, and train for a very challenging race. She believes that our entire country can only benefit from helping organizations such as the American Cancer Society reach their goals in prevention programs and cancer cures but that takes the help of the community, so Caneilia is committed!
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