Way to Go, Team Ken!

Some of our amazing members of Team Ken in their ninja sloth bandanas!

Thank you to the TEAM KEN runners & walkers who completed virtual 5Ks (in both rain and shine) around their neighborhoods yesterday. The kids and I walked in Ballard with our neighbors, the Haldimanns, and loved knowing other team members were out and about too.

Huge appreciation to all the donors who contributed over $8,000 for pediatric brain cancer research at Seattle Children’s Hospital! Ken was adamant that something positive come from his experience so he passionately championed this cause in the two years after his own diagnosis. I know he would be proud of this effort and eager to see what innovations the money can help achieve. The overall event is now VERY close to hitting the top goal of $500,000. The annual funds from this and contributions by private donors throughout the year allow the researchers and doctors to make big leaps.

(Want to help get them to the finish line? Click here: https://www.runofhopeseattle.org/teamken)

Did you know that Seattle Children’s has the only CAR-T Cell Clinical Trial for Pediatric Brain Cancer in the world? That therapy takes a pediatric brain cancer patient’s own white blood cells and ‘instructs’ them how to attack the very specific cancer that they have. Once re-injected into the patient’s brain, the white blood cells only attack the cancer, not the surrounding healthy cells—like radiation & chemo tend to do. It’s a game-changing approach that is in testing with 35 kids now and, if successful, will be expanded. Our money helps make that happen.

Thanks again to all who participated. We appreciate you!


Thanks Joe, for the big ‘ups’.

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