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Featured News

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    A BRIGHT Year to Remember

    BRIGHT News

    Life – and BRIGHT – took a strange turn in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected – is still affecting – everyone world-wide. We look forward to the continued roll-out of effective COVID vaccines, hoping that, sometime in the near future, life might return to something close to normal. Via the instant communication that has […]

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  • Decisions, Decisions

    BRIGHT News

    The BRIGHT Run executive took the COVID-19 pandemic seriously right from the start, discussing very early in the year the possibility that the BRIGHT family would not be able to gather safely at the Dundas Valley Conservation Area on Sept. 12. It was a difficult discussion, over several meetings. Most members of the executive committee […]

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    Super Steve is our Guy!

    BRIGHT News

    The first virtual BRIGHT Run came with another first – male survivor spokesperson Steve Ewoniak, who was diagnosed in 2018. Men account for less than one per cent of breast cancer cases in Canada and Steve’s story garnered a lot of attention, starting with his Aug. 12 appearance on CHCH Morning Live. Steve’s enthusiasm for […]

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  • We Love Drive-Throughs!

    BRIGHT News

    Here’s a quandary – how do we personally connect with the members of the BRIGHT family when it’s not safe to physically gather in one place? Aha! A distanced drive-through event was the answer! Aug. 26 marked yet another first for the BRIGHT Run. Thanks to a bunch of volunteers, we pulled off our first […]

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  • Sunni

    Lights, Camera, Action!

    BRIGHT News

    Sept. 12, 2020: It’s feeling a bit stressy backstage at the virtual BRIGHT Run. We’re on the verge of a bunch of firsts. We have no sea of faces smiling up at us. No breeze blowing. No sun shining on us, although there’s lots of sunshine outside. And then it’s time. Our MC, K-Lite’s Sunni […]

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BRIGHT Run 2020

Breast cancer did not stop for COVID-19 and neither did BRIGHT Run 2020 or BRIGHT Runners.
Thank you for changing the world and helping to fund local breast cancer research at our Hamilton cancer centre.
Together, we raised more than $333,000!

See you Sept. 11, 2021!

Research Projects

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BRIGHT Run Breast Cancer Learning Health System Chair

As the BRIGHT Run experience matured, its leaders felt it was time to build...

Strategy to Implement Exercise

Both vitamin D and melatonin have the potential to affect the growth of cancer...

TXA for Mastectomy

Doxorubicin and trastuzumab are effective drugs for treating breast cancer, but they can cause...

Identifying Tumour Margins

In this study a new type of imaging camera which depends on a radioactive...

BRIGHT Survivor Stories

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Pamela’s BRIGHT Story
Margaret’s BRIGHT Story
Kristen’s BRIGHT Story

The BRIGHT Run

Juravinski Cancer Centre
699 Concession St.
Hamilton, Ontario
L8V 5C2

Mailing address:
PO Box 739, LCD 1
Hamilton, Ontario
L8N 3M8

Proceeds are administered by HHS Foundation and their registered charitable number is 131159543 RR0001

What is the BRIGHT Run?

The BRIGHT Run is a non-competitive, family friendly 1km/5km walk or run which is held annually, the first Saturday after Labour Day, at the Dundas Valley Conservation Area in Dundas, Ontario.

Each year, over 1000 participants of all ages, come together to support local breast cancer research being conducted at the Juravinski Cancer Centre.
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Fundraising Success

We raised more than $335,000 in 2019,
bringing our 12-year total to more than $4 million.

Join us on Saturday September 12, 2020.

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