a family-friendly event benefitting local breast cancer research
BRIGHT Run is a non-competitive, family-friendly 1 km/5 km walk or run held at Christie Lake Conservation Area, on the first Saturday after Labour Day.
Join us for our 18th annual BRIGHT Run!
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Thank you to everyone for another successful 2024 BRIGHT Run!
Look for annoucement regarding registration for BRIGHT Run 2025 soon and get started on your fundraising.
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PROJECTS
BRIGHT Run has funded 17 breast cancer research projects each ranging in value between $50,000 and $100,000. Here are some of the projects your donations have funded to date.
Post-Mastectomy Body Image Concerns
Women with breast cancer can often experience concerns about how their body looks after surgery to remove one or both breasts. Changes in physical appearance can be very distressing, and can negatively impact a person’s mental health, relationship with others, and...
Decoding the Function of Kaiso
Breast cancer remains the most common cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide, and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), is a very aggressive type of breast cancer with no specific treatment. TNBC is most common in young Black women for unknown reasons. The primary...
Can we be more efficient in the delivery of adjuvant radiotherapy?
Typically, following a lumpectomy for breast cancer, patients receive radiotherapy (RT) to the breast to reduce the chance of cancer recurring in the breast. This is now often given in five daily treatments (called fractions) over one week based on the results of a...
Evaluation of AI Tools for the Development of Evidence-Based Cancer Guidelines
Medical clinical practice guidelines serve as roadmaps for clinicians to provide step-by-step instructions on the best ways to treat patients. However, creating a reliable medical guideline is a lengthy process. Screening thousands of articles from literature searches...
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Long-range Approaches to BRIGHT Fundraising
Barely a month after BRIGHT Run 2024, fundraising has already started for BRIGHT 2025! First...
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