MileStones Walk for Childhood Cancer

The topic of childhood cancer is close to my heart. Not only do I counsel children with cancer and their families, but as a teenager, my best friend lost her life to cancer. The statistics show that 12,500 children will be diagnosed with cancer each year; yes, that isn’t a huge number, but it is still too many. Everyone knows kids: they may be your own, they may belong to your friends/neighbors/family. You may teach kids or you may only encounter them on a bus or in passing in a mall. But we were all kids at one time, and remember how much we hated getting sick?

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. CureSearch National Childhood Cancer Foundation (which raises money for Children’s Oncology Group to do research) is sponsoring MileStones, a walk “to conquer childhood cancer”. Although there are limited MileStone walks in the country (click here for the few walk sites), you can walk “virtually” this month by a small donation to the Foundation. Although the virtual walk won’t help you burn calories, it will help in the fight against childhood cancer!

If neither ideas appeal to you, at least take some time this month to walk with someone you care about or spend time with a friend of loved one who has been hit with any cancer diagnosis. You’ll be glad you did!

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