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Featured News

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    A message from BRIGHT Run Chair Nancy McMillan

    BRIGHT News

    As Margaret Mead said… “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Well isn’t that the truth. Early in April our BRIGHT Run executive got together for our first ZOOM meeting to discuss BRIGHT Run 2020. We discussed HOW we would do […]

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  • Out of the Park!

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    From Mark Levine, the Doc with Pink Tights We just celebrated BRIGHT Run #13. To be honest, I had my doubts about whether people would go for the virtual format and whether our financial target could be achieved. When September arrived, I checked the thermometer on the BRIGHT Run web page every day. I was […]

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  • You Have Spoken!

    BRIGHT News

    In the hours after BRIGHT Run 2020, the organizing committee received messages from many of you, including 157 emails to event chair Nancy McMillan, who wrote: “One large team went to the Juravinski Hospital and walked the perimeter to wave at the windows and salute their teammate/leader who is in hospital. Another team got together for […]

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  • History in a Quilt

    BRIGHT News

    Breast Cancer Awareness Month is marked in October each year in countries around the world. The goal is to increase attention and support for breast cancer awareness, early detection and treatment. This notion of an “awareness month” dates back to the mid-1980s in the United States and spread to Canada quickly. The pink ribbon took […]

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  • We’re All Winners…..

    BRIGHT News

    BRIGHT 2020 was a challenge in many ways, given the new realities of the COVID-19 pandemic. But breast cancer didn’t stop for COVID and neither did the BRIGHT Run – together we raised a whopping $333,000+ for local breast cancer research! Despite the challenges of going virtual for the first time in 13 years, the […]

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BRIGHT Run 2020

Welcome to BRIGHT Run 2020, celebrating our 13th year!
This year's event is being held VIRTUALLY on Saturday September 12/20.
Because of COVID-19 we are working on a wonderful new, physically distant, virtual event.


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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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Lisa Balsdon
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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