Athletic Events: Standing a Chance of Helping Brain Tumor Awareness?

By Rob Sutter


It's apparent that brain tumor awareness can be seen on a grander scale because of just how much it can help the actual disease. People can be made more aware of its impact on people, to name just one factor. I believe that individuals stand a chance of helping on the matter, though, simply by the time spent helping out. This level of awareness stands a great chance of increasing but it's a matter of how much people want to give that will help it most.

An article on Fox10tv.com talked about Annette Kaechele's late husband, Corky, died due to glioblastoma, deemed the most aggressive cancer in the name of brain tumor awareness. Annette said that the condition took away who people were and it's not hard to see why. Corky not only had to go through a multitude of surgeries to care for the problem but he was unable to read or recall the names of his children. Organizations like Voices Against Brain Cancer can tell you just how severe this problem can become.

The idea of Corky being active in sports was also touched upon in the article. It was said that he enjoyed such activities as fishing and water skiing, investing ample time into both. Annette wanted to be able to propose a run, which was also something that her husband enjoyed doing. After a great amount of effort was seen on the matter, she was able to organize it and what deserves to be noted is that the funding brought forth would go to the St. Jude Children's Hospital.

The efforts which Annette has put forth are astounding and I don't think that anyone will be able to debate the matter, either. She wants to know all about these matters of cancer, such as the amount of people told they have the conditioned. It's clear that as many as 500 people are diagnosed but why is this statistic as high as it is? I think that the work will constantly be done to answer these questions and her actions have played a great part on the matter.

Annette has also been driven to bring her efforts to even wider reaches. She wants to be able to help children who have this type of cancer, which shows you just how much it can impact anyone. Not only does age not appear to be a factor but ones like gender and ethnicity stand as other factors which don't seem to have much bearing. It's the kind of condition which should be learned more about and this factor is another reason as to why that is.




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