Wisconsin Woman Suffering from Late Stage Breast Cancer to Swim Lake Hillsdale May 11

MADISON, Wis. - May 5, 2015 - PRLog -- Cancer patient Mary Gooze, age 63, of Oregon, Wisconsin, has decided to go on the offensive against the disease and use her remaining time to educate people about late-stage cancer and raise money for research to cure it.

On May 11, Gooze will swim across Lake Hillsdale at 10:00 a.m. to raise money for the non-profit, METAvivor! (Hillsdale State Park is south of Olathe, KS, between Spring Hill and Paola, three miles east of US-169K-7 and 255th St. interchange.)

Call (608-279-0904) to arrange either a phone interview or an in-person interview at Hillsdale State Park before or after her May 11 swim.

Although Gooze is struggling with late stage cancer, “I decided to focus my days doing something that I loved. I plan to swim across as many lakes as possible, bringing awareness and funding to metastatic breast cancer,” said Gooze.

Since the cancer has spread to her bones, there are no treatments that can cure Gooze. Unfortunately, funding is sparse for research that explores how best to fight late-stage cancer and that’s why Gooze has chosen to literally dive into this fight. Her first swimming campaign of 2015 was at Lake Patagonia in Arizona. After Hillsdale Lake, she will swim all five lakes in Madison, Wisconsin and then on to northern Wisconsin and Minnesota to attempt more lakes.

METAvivor is dedicated to the specific fight of women and men living with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. At the time of METAvivor’s founding, no organization was dedicated to funding research for the disease and no patient groups were speaking out about the dearth of stage 4 cancer research. While more and more people have taken up the cry for more stage IV research, METAvivor remains the sole US organization dedicated to awarding annual peer-reviewed stage IV breast cancer research grants.