a family-friendly event benefitting local breast cancer research
BRIGHT Run is a non-competitive, family friendly 1 km/5 km walk or run which is held annually, the first Saturday after Labour Day.
Join us for our 16th annual BRIGHT Run!
Saturday, September 9th, 2023
BRIGHT Run funding for Metastatic Breast Cancer
BRIGHT Run has approved funding for a research project that aims to study the impact of a specialized type of radiation in patients with metastatic breast cancer.
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BRIGHT RUN
Register now for BRIGHT Run2023 and get started on your fundraising. We’ve improved our registration page to make it easier for you and your team members to register and fundraise this year.
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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.
BRIGHT Funding for Metastatic Breast Cancer Study
BRIGHT Run has approved funding for a research project that aims to study the impact of a specialized type of radiation in patients with metastatic breast cancer. The project, headed by Dr. Elysia K. Donovan, a radiation oncologist at the Juravinski Cancer Centre aims...
Announcing the new BRIGHT Run Breast Cancer Learning Health System Chair
The BRIGHT Run’s 17th funding commitment represents a unique and cutting-edge legacy that is a tribute to the hard work of our participants, volunteers and community partners over many years. The BRIGHT Run Breast Cancer Learning Health System Chair was jointly...
Strategy to Implement Exercise
One in eight women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. With improved screening and treatment techniques, more women are surviving breast cancer. However, women live with physical and emotional side effects for years after cancer treatments have ended....
TXA for Mastectomy
The Breast Surgery Research Group of the Department of Surgery at McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences has received funding from the BRIGHT Run to investigate a way to reduce the incidence of seroma and hematoma among patients who have had breast cancer...
OUR STORY
LATEST NEWS
Sweet Support for Breast Cancer Research
What a blow-out bake sale! Congratulations to the members of BRIGHT team The Girls of WW for their...
Chatting with a Chatbot as the New Year Begins
Hello BRIGHT Run Family, Happy New Year! Incidentally, I wrote the same statement to...
BRIGHT Run Hits the Ice – On Sarah’s Nurse’s Feet!
Olympic gold medal hockey player Sarah Nurse has a new pair of CCM skates and they’re very cool....
BRIGHT RUN 2022
Breast cancer did not stop for COVID-19 and neither did BRIGHT Run 2022 or BRIGHT Runners.
Thank you for changing the world and helping to fund local breast cancer research at our Hamilton cancer centre.
