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Find out about Relay events near you.
- Celebration on the Hill is organized by the American Cancer Society under the auspices of its Relay For Life signature activity.
- Relay is a unique 24-hour overnight activity that offers everyone in a community an opportunity to participate in the fight against cancer.
- Relay For Life participants organize teams to walk or run around a track to demonstrate their resolve to eliminate cancer as a major public health problem.
- In 2002, about 3,300 Relay For Life events will be held in communities across the country.
- An estimated 2.5 million participants and 500,000 cancer survivors are expected to particpate.
- Last year, Relay For the Life raised $212 million to support the American Cancer Society’s mission. It is the Society’s single largest fundraising activity.
- While Relay For Life is a fundraiser, Relay for Life Celebration on the Hill is a grassroots advocacy activity, not a fundraising event.
- Relay For Life began 17 years ago in May of 1985 when Dr. Gordon Klatt, a colorectal surgeon, took the first step of his 24-hour run around a Tacoma, Washington, track and raised $27,000 for the American Cancer Society. The following year, 220 supporters on 19 teams joined Dr. Klatt in this overnight event and Relay For Life was born.
- Since 1985, Relay For Life has raised $732 million for research, education, advocacy, and patient services.
- Funds raised through Relay For Life support the American Cancer Society’s mission to eliminate cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
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