Join us for a very special evening of jazz, dancing, and resilience supporting Cancer Active.
Cancer Active’s mission is to educate and advocate for individuals living with cancer to improve their quality of life through healthy and active lifestyles, and it is developing the Cancer Active Patient Portal (CAPP) to enhance patient quality-of-life resources.
Their story began in January 2017 as a way to raise awareness for Multiple Myeloma, a blood cancer, currently without a cure. Founder and executive director, Kenny Capps, was diagnosed with stage two Multiple Myeloma on January 15, 2015 and was forced to stop running that year due to a large bone lesion in his left hip. Prior to being diagnosed, Kenny was an ultramarathon runner (anything longer than 26.2 miles) and avid, if not extremely ordinary athlete. Kenny relied heavily on the generosity and kindness of friends and family to overcome the physical, medical, logistical and financial challenges of living with cancer. In August 2015, after multiple rounds of chemotherapy and infusions, Kenny underwent a mostly successful bone marrow transplant. He did not achieve remission. In 2016, Kenny participated in 16 running events, including 3 half-marathons and a tough 18 mile trail run with 5,000 feet of elevation gain. After reviewing the year, Kenny went to his wife, Murphy, and proposed running 1,175 miles across the state of North Carolina on the Mountains to Sea Trail in 2018 to raise awareness and funds for Myeloma. His wife is apparently as crazy as he is. She told him to go for it. During 2017, Kenny trained and prepared for the long run and pulled other crazy people into this amazing and wonderful odyssey.
Today Cancer Active, which used to be Throwing Bones, consists of a board of wonderful people and a group of followers that grows bigger by the day.
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