December 1,
2005
Contact: Donna Breckenridge
For Immediate
Release
520-626-2277
Better Than Ever
Program members are ready to tackle half-marathons, beat
cancer
The Arizona
Cancer Center’s Better Than Ever Program is helping 52 people
living in the Phoenix area improve their lives and fight
cancer. Many of the BTE members, who have trained for several months, will
compete in one of two half-marathons being held on Dec. 4 and Jan. 15. The
BTE program offers free coaching, advice from physical therapists, motivation
and awards. In addition to feeling good about their physical achievement, BTE
members also like the feeling of being able to raise $500 to support cancer
research and prevention at the Arizona Cancer Center, Greater Phoenix. The
half marathons are:
The Runners Den/Fiesta Bowl Half Marathon
- Sunday, Dec.
4
- Start time: 8
a.m.
- Begins (and ends)
at 75th Street and
Main in Scottsdale
And
PF Chang’s Rock “n” Roll
Marathon
- Sunday, Jan.
14
- Start time: 8:30
a.m.
- Begins at
Wesley
Bolin Memorial Park on Jefferson
Street
- Ends between Wells
Fargo Arena
and Sun Devil Stadium
Linda Zell, a breast cancer survivor, started
participating in Better Than Ever four years ago following her cancer treatment.
“It got me on the road to healthy living and exercising, and I haven’t stopped,”
she says. Zell, who never exercised before joining BTE, now participates in
about five or six events each year. She also coaches up to 10 Better Than Ever
members in the Scottsdale area. Zell will participate in the
Rock “n” Roll Marathon. She just finished participating in a Komen Foundation
60-mile three-day walk.
The Arizona
Cancer Center is Arizona’s first National Cancer
Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. With primary locations at the
University of Arizona in Tucson and
the Virginia Piper Cancer
Center in Scottsdale, the Center has
more than a dozen research and education offices distributed throughout the
state. The Center’s mission is to prevent and cure cancer through patient care,
research and education. For more information, go to www.azcc.arizona.edu.
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Media advisory: To interview Linda
Zell, contact Arizona Cancer Center Assistant Development Director
Nancy Gerald at (623) 670-4782.
Susan
Guthrie
Senior Public Affairs
Coordinator
University of Arizona, College of Medicine - Phoenix
4001 N. Third
Street, Suite
401
Phoenix, Arizona 85012
602-631-6555 (office) 480-241-7738
(cell)
sguthrie@email.arizona.edu
www.phoenix.arizona.edu
To read about the
expansion of the UA College of Medicine in Phoenix go to http://www.phoenix.medicine.arizona.edu/About/News/Campus/