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Workout to Conquer Cancer 2025
Held by Luke Horricks
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In May 2023 my little sister Sophie married the love of her life Josh ..then in November 2023 we received the nightmare news that Josh was diagnosed with a very rare type of sarcoma.
Since then Josh has been fighting for his life, navigating his way through the health care system, doing everything right, and still has time to rip it up on the slopes in Japan.
Josh has been beating the odds and we gotta help him keep doing it!
This May, I will be working out every single day in preparation for being part of JOSH'S TEAM in the 120km GranFondo Valley cycling event to raise money for cancer patients like Josh.
With the funds raised last year (and if you donated thank you thank you!) we helped Dr Torsten Nielsen make amazing progress (update below).
Cancer won't stop until we stop it.
Your support means a lot to a lot of people!
Thank you for your support.
Here is an update from Dr Nielsen:
"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."
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