Susan G. Komen Race for Cure draws 14,000 to downtown Birmingham on rainy morning

Komen race - 1010.jpgSome of the 14,000 runners in downtown Birmingham participate in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. (The Birmingham News / Bernard Troncale)The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in downtown Birmingham had 14,000 participants in a drizzling, intermittent rain this morning. The 5K race started at 9 a.m. and the one-mile "fun run" and walk started at 10 a.m., drawing large crowds to downtown in Linn Park and surrounding streets.

"It was muddy and yucky," said Stephanie Moore, an accountant who served as registration chair. "Most people were patient."

Although the race drew more participants this year than last, it fell short of the $1 million raised last year to support breast cancer research. The total raised was about $900,000, Moore said.

"Attendance was up, but corporate sponsorship was down, which was to be expected in a year like this," she said.

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and being supportive. But it breaks my heart to think they think that the money is actually used for advancing a "cure" from mainstream medicine. The cancer industry/big pharma makes far too much money, just the way cures rates are set to ever actually find anything substantially promising. Sure they make a discovery, here, a discovery there, but the future date of any kind of release of said drug is always so elusive, so far in the future.

The good news is there has been and always will be hope in Naturopathy. But MS medicine and MS media have everyone convinced that anything offered by non traditional doctors is pure snake oil or quackery.