As for fundraising, “A lot of the advocacy for cancer is from people who survive it,” said B.C. That’s where oncologist Daniel Renouf predicted that pancreatic cancer, which has no screening test, will be the second cause of cancer deaths by 2026. Sidelined by a broken leg this year, she attended a pre-event reception at the family’s home. Ella, then aged nine, promptly raised $31,000 herself by riding in 2014. Meanwhile, the 2013 death of entrepreneur and major fundraiser Darren Latoski at age 44 led wife Cyndi Ankenman and children Kate, Ella and Noah to launch the Latoski Ankenman Family Foundation. This year’s 800 entrants reportedly raised $397,000 to take the nine-year total beyond $2 million. KEEP GOING: Betty Ergas’s death to pancreatic cancer resulted in daughter Myriam Glotman, her husband Geoffrey and his Glotman-Simpson firm’s cycling team founding the Cypress Challenge mountain climb.

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