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Workout to Conquer Cancer 2025
Held by Sophia Horricks
https://workouttoconquercancer.ca/fundraiser/sophieforjosh
$9,850.00 Raised
$4000
55 supporters
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$73,589.00 Raised
$70000
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Fundraiser Donors

  1. Friends of parents of other Canadian patient
    $1000
  2. SHERRY SMALL
    $500
  3. Farzana Mohamed
    $500
  4. Rob Horricks
    $500
  5. Mackoff Mohamed
    $500
  6. Anonymous
    $500
  7. Andrea Kavanagh
    $500
  8. Debbie Greene
    $250
  9. Marcia Horricks
    $250
  10. Mary McConville
    $250
  11. Sunny
    $250
  12. Jeff Horricks
    $250
  13. Shannon and Steve Small
    $250
  14. McCandless Family
    $250
  15. Elaine Horricks
    $250
  16. Amanda McKeown
    $200
  17. Fred Small
    $200
  18. Penny Paul
    $200
  19. Emma Houghton
    $150
  20. Becky Small
    $150
  21. Nick Keenan
    $130
  22. Wheaton Precious Metals Match
    $125
  23. Mark Segal
    $100
  24. Cody Small
    $100
  25. James Hsu
    $100
  26. Anonymous
    $100
  27. Cameron Larson
    $100
  28. Toni Pieroni
    $100
  29. Alia Bandali
    $100
  30. Max McKeown
    $100
  31. Laura Ramsden
    $100
  32. Martin & Kirsten Smith & Hudson
    $100
  33. Jess and Julian
    $100
  34. Lauren Kipp
    $100
  35. Victoria Pelling McMullen
    $100
  36. Maggie Hall
    $100
  37. G Kim
    $100
  38. Sinead McGowan
    $100
  39. Harkamal Rai
    $100
  40. Jackie Benson
    $100
  41. Iqra Azhar
    $100
  42. Rachel Small
    $100
  43. Raziya Buksh
    $100
  44. Jeremy Campos
    $50
  45. Ramsey Glass
    $50
  46. Lisa Leveille
    $50
  47. Rose Morgan
    $50
  48. Lauren Foot
    $50
  49. Eva Low
    $50
  50. Mari Mathews
    $50
  51. Jo and Jon Parkin
    $50
  52. Leigh Renwick
    $50
  53. Anonymous
    $25
  54. Rachel Adilman
    $25
  55. Adam
    $25
  56. Marshall Mackoff
    $25
  57. Declan O’Briain
    $25
  58. Meghan Mccandless
    $20

 

My husband, Josh Lombardi, was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive sarcoma, DSRCT, in November 2023. He has been fighting this disease with grace and grit ever since.

Sarcomas are not as well understood as other cancers. We have a long way to go to improve outcomes for patients like Josh.

This May, I will be moving every single day to raise funds for life-saving research and care at BC Cancer. Our team will then ride in the Valley GranFondo on June 8, a 120 km cycling event.

Specifically, we are raising money for Dr Torsten Nielsen's sarcoma research lab.

Did you already donate last year?

Here is an update from Dr Nielsen himself:

"Inspired by the benefits we are seeing for Josh and for two other Canadian patients receiving a new immunostimulatory therapy being developed in Seattle, the Nielsen lab is investigating the involvement of gamma-delta T-cells in DSRCT and related sarcomas. This is part of a larger project assessing therapeutic biomarker expression in DSRCT, for which we have recently secured ethical approval to gather all the available samples in BC (including now also from BC Childrens). We are concurrently optimizing tests to detect targets for three newly developed antibody-drug conjugate therapies. In parallel we have struck up a new collaboration with investigators at the worlds leading centre for DSRCT research (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York) who are helping us design a much-needed genetically-engineered mouse model for this cancer that could be used for experimental therapeutics. To accelerate all this work, we have identified a bright, hardworking and motivated young researcher to join our team as our new technologist dedicated to the DSRCT project. Finally, with Josh, Sophie & Val's personal help as part of our newly formed Patient and Family Advisory Council, we are working to secure funding from the Terry Fox Research Institute that will include DSRCT in a program to investigate Childhood, Adolescent & Young Adult Sarcomas. If successful this Program Project would bring in an additional team of 11 colleagues to work on DSRCT and related cancers of the young, including internationally prominent cancer researchers like Sam Aparicio and David Huntsman who have not focussed on sarcomas before."

So, as I get ready to sweat my way through May, please show your support by donating today!

Movement Minutes

1,967

minutes tracked

Activity Tracker presented by Orchid Medical CLinic

Run with Kendra
 Run | May 31, 2025
44 minutes
Park with Lawrence
 Run | May 29, 2025
1 hours, 20 minutes
May 13
 Walk | May 13, 2025
30 minutes

 

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