Team Sarcoma/Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Dr. John Goldberg is a sarcoma oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. He and his wife Hillary organized the Team Sarcoma/DFCI. Dr. Goldberg said, "It was easy for my wife and I to agree to participate in the Team Sarcoma 2006 Bike Tour, as we have seen first hand how terrible this type of cancer is for patients and families and how badly new treatments are needed. The Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative helps to make sure that research on seemingly rare diseases moves forward and does not get stuck for a lack of funding of innovative investigators. If you look at sarcoma as a global disease, you understand that a global effort is needed to fight it - while most forms of sarcoma are not common, they affect all peoples of the world and thus take an enormous toll on humanity in aggregate. The only way to study such illnesses is to enlarge the fight against them. The sarcoma advocacy community, as exemplified by the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative, builds upon the courage of those afflicted with sarcoma to make good on their bravery in fighting cancer by making sure new treatments are investigated and new investigators are supported. They arranged a "Bike, Run, Walk for a Cure" in Quincy, Massachusetts. MiMi Olsson. who moderates the Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma support group on Yahoo, also helped recruit people. In the end there were 34 people that participated in this event.

Hillary and John Goldberg, before the event

Getting started

Some of the walkers finishing

Some of the participants

LMS walkers

Three younger participants

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