UR Medicine’s Wilmot Cancer Institute will honor 29 cancer survivors and caregivers at the fourth annual Wilmot Warrior Walk taking place Sunday, September 11 at the Highland Park Bowl, Rochester.
Earlier this year, the community was invited to nominate cancer survivors or caregivers who have faced cancer as a patient or as a caregiver of a loved one. Honorees demonstrate mental focus and discipline and will be recognized because of the manner in which they dealt with life when confronting a struggle like cancer.
“This year we have the largest class of honorees in the history of the Warrior Walk. These folks are a great representation of the patients we serve at Wilmot with a range of ages, disease types and backgrounds,” says Tiffany Paine-Cirrincione, associate director, Advancement and Community Events for Wilmot Cancer Institute. “It truly highlights how indiscriminate cancer is. We are delighted to honor them this year.”
Honorees from the westside include: •Meghan Bauer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia survivor from Greece
•Mike Crumb, pancreatic cancer survivor from Hilton
•Dennis DeVelder, brain cancer survivor from Chili Center
•Jessica Drexler, colon cancer survivor from Gates
•Paris Lanning, caregiver from Greece
•Denise Lazore, from Brockport, survivor of cervical cancer, breast cancer, multiple myeloma and lung cancer
•Walt Standhart, pancreatic cancer survivor from Greece
•Jacqueline Vaccaro, head and neck cancer survivor from Greece
•Willard “Jim” Walker, larynx cancer survivor from Greece
The honorees will be recognized at the Wilmot Warrior Walk, which includes a certified 5K, certified 10K and a 1-mile walk. After the races, participants are invited to a celebration that will include live music, bounce houses, food trucks (food available for purchase) and more.
Proceeds from this event will benefit cancer research at Wilmot as well as Wilmot’s Judy DiMarzo Cancer Survivorship Program, which assists those transitioning from active treatment into survivorship. The program provides patients with survivorship care plans and links them with important community resources, among other tasks.
“The Wilmot Warrior Walk allows us to come together as a community to celebrate life after cancer. Not only will we honor cancer survivors and caregivers, but we’ll also reflect on the lives we’ve lost to cancer,” says Nancy Termer, R.N., B.S.N., Cancer Survivorship Nurse Coordinator with Wilmot’s Judy DiMarzo Cancer Survivorship Program. “By participating in the Wilmot Warrior Walk, we all get to be part of helping future cancer survivors and to celebrate not just surviving but surviving well after cancer.”
To learn more or register, visit WarriorWalk.URMC.edu.
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