Registration For The Denver Metropolitan Affiliate Of Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure® Is Now Open

May 18, 2010 - PRLog -- Denver - (May 18, 2010)- Registration is now open for teams and individuals for the 18th annual Race for the Cure®.

WHEN: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3rd

WHERE: The Pepsi Center

Participants can register online and Sponsors can get more information at www.komendenver.org.

The 5K run/walk, sponsored by the Denver Metropolitan Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® is Denver’s largest event for breast health and breast cancer awareness and education. Over 54,000 people participated in last year’s Race and more than $2 million was raised.

“The Denver Race is always one of the biggest in the country,” said Michele Ostrander, executive director of the Denver Affiliate. “It’s a fun event; it’s a celebration. It is also a great chance to support our mission – to end breast cancer in our life times – a goal that could quite literally change the world as we know it.”


About Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and the Komen Denver Affiliate

Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure and launched the global breast cancer movement. The Komen Denver Metropolitan Affiliate is working to better the lives of those facing breast cancers in the local community, joining more than 1 million breast cancer survivors and activists around the globe as part of the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting breast cancer. Through events like the Komen Denver Race for the Cure®, the Komen Denver Affiliate has invested more than $25 million since 1993 in community breast health programs in 19 Colorado counties (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson, Larimer, Gilpin, Clear Creek, Park, Summit, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld, and Yuma counties). The remaining 25 percent goes to the national Susan G. Komen for the Cure Grants Program to fund research. For more information, call 303-744-2088 or visit www.komendenver.org.