Providence FinishCancer Team
FUNDRAISING FOR PROVIDENCE CANCER INSTITUTE
Congratulations, team Short Squeezed Our Inflated Assets, for raising over $60,214 to #FINISHCANCER!
Help us reach our fundraising goal of $1 million dollars for the 2025 Providence Hood and Portland To Coast Relay. Donate today at the link below!
Support a FinishCancer team or place a general donation. All donations are tax deductible.
Become a FINISHCANCER Team
Want to get involved? You can #FINISHCANCER and guarantee entry to the Hood and Portland To Coast Relay by becoming an official Providence FinishCancer Team! Spots are limited.
As team captain, it’s up to you to help your team reach your $12,000 fundraising goal by the week of Packet Pick-Up. All of your teammates will be encouraged to share their own fundraising page and raise money from friends and family to reach your team’s fundraising goal to help #FINISHCANCER.
Step 1: Register As A Providence FinishCancer Team
To register as an official Providence FinishCancer team, please email [email protected]. Keep in mind that we take a limited number of fundraising teams. Once the slots are filled then fundraising team registration will close. We accept teams on a first come, first serve basis. Your registration is what holds your team’s spot.
When registering, you will be asked to enter your card information. As a Providence FinishCancer Team, we will NOT charge your card upon initial registration, but rather hold your card information in the instance that your team does not reach your fundraising total prior to the week of packet pick-up. Your team will be charged the difference if you do not meet the fundraising total of $12,000 by race day. If your team decides to drop from the race, the credit card on hold will be charged the registration drop fee.
Step 2: Create Your Team's Classy Findraising Page
Create your Classy fundraising page by clicking this link, then click “Become a Fundraiser”, then click “Create a Team”. You’ll either login if you already have an account, or you’ll want to create an account. Continue to fill out all of the information and you’ll have your fundraising page! To add your teammates to the fundraising page they will click the link above, “Become a Fundraiser”, and “Join a Team”. They can then search for your team and join.
You will use your Classy Fundraising page’s URL to fundraise online. If you receive a check that you would like to go towards your fundraising goal, please send this check directly to Providence Cancer Institute. It is vital that you include “HTC or PTC”, your name, and team name on the memo line of the check.
Below is the address in which you will mail your check to:
Melodee Boyer, Administrative Assistant
Providence Portland Medical Foundation
4805 NE Glisan Street Suite 1G14 Portland, OR 97213
Providence FINISHCANCER Team Benefits
Providence FinishCancer Teams will have exclusive access to the Exchange 18 #FINISHCANCER Comfort and Recovery Zone!
This will serve as the ultimate comfort and recovery area to get you energized for the second half of the relay. Whether it’s treating yourself to a hot shower or a complimentary latte, your team will leave rested and rejuvenated!
In becoming a FinishCancer team you receive the following benefits:
- Guaranteed 2025 race registration with NO entry fee
- VIP team swag bags at the start line and Exchange 18
- VIP team snack bags at Exchange 18
- Exclusive access to the VIP comfort and recovery zone at Exchange 18 including:
- Showers (toiletries provided)
- Luxury restrooms
- Hot meals
- Sleeping cots (pillows, sleeping masks, and earbuds provided)
- Lounge area
- Complimentary coffee
- Exemption from Providing team volunteers
- Complimentary meals and drinks at the finish line
- Guaranteed finish before 5pm on Saturday (via preferred start times)!
Providence FINISHCANCER Team Benefits
Providence FinishCancer Teams will have exclusive access to the Exchange 18 #FINISHCANCER Comfort and Recovery Zone!
This will serve as the ultimate comfort and recovery area to get you energized for the second half of the relay. Whether it’s treating yourself to a hot shower or a complimentary latte, your team will leave rested and rejuvenated!
In becoming a FinishCancer team you receive the following benefits:
- Guaranteed 2025 race registration with NO entry fee
- VIP team swag bags at the start line and Exchange 18
- VIP team snack bags at Exchange 18
- Exclusive access to the VIP comfort and recovery zone at Exchange 18 including:
- Showers (toiletries provided)
- Luxury restrooms
- Hot meals
- Sleeping cots (pillows, sleeping masks, and earbuds provided)
- Lounge area
- Complimentary coffee
- Exemption from Providing team volunteers
- Complimentary meals and drinks at the finish line
- Guaranteed finish before 5pm on Saturday (via preferred start times)!
FinishCancer Team Toolkit
FUNDRAISING TOOLS FOR PROVIDENCE CANCER INSTITUTE
Suggested Social Post Captions
- Did you know philanthropy funds more than 70% of research at Providence Cancer Institute? That is why my Hood/Portland To Coast team is fundraising for cancer prevention and treatment. Please consider donating any amount you can to help my team reach our goal of $12,000 to #FINISHCANCER
- This August my team (insert team name) is running (walking) Hood (Portland) To Coast Relay and fundraising for Providence Cancer Institute. Our goal is to raise $12,000 (insert additional amount if more) to provide funding for cancer treatment and research by race day. Help support our cause to #FINISHCANCER and donate to our fundraising page. Every dollar aids in the fight and helps cancer patients, local and beyond!
- About 1 in 5 people develop cancer in their lifetime. I am fundraising for Providence Cancer Institute so that more people can live long, healthy lives. Any amount donated will make a difference in someone’s life! Donate to my fundraising page so we can #FINISHCANCER.
Social Stories
Save these images to your phone and use them as Instagram or Facebook stories. Place a donation link at the bottom that links to your fundraising page.
Videos
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Patient Stories
Patient Story #1:
“Sasha” continued to experience gastrointestinal complications six weeks after giving birth. In her thirties and with no known family history of colorectal cancer, her physician was surprised to find a 4-centimeter cancerous tumor in her colon.
Sasha was offered the chance to participate in an immunotherapy clinical trial. Providence Medical Director of Radiation Oncology Kristina Young, M.D., Ph.D., leads an investigator-initiated Phase II clinical trial testing galunisertib, an experimental immunotherapy for people with colorectal cancer.
Sasha took galunisertib every day for two week before starting radiation and chemotherapy. When it came time for surgery, she had completed four weeks of immunotherapy concurrent with six weeks of chemoradiation and experiences few side effects.
This treatment significantly reduced the size of Sasha’s tumor allowing her to recover and better care for her family. This past year, a second colonoscopy revealed she was disease-free.
Patient Story #2:
You don’t meet someone like Jeff very often. Amid a cancer journey that spans more than 20 years, he exudes a contagious zest for life.
Jeff learned he had neuroendocrine cancer. More than 30 tumors were spread throughout his digestive tract, causing agonizing spasms. Bat as scary and painful as Jeff’s diagnosis was, he had access to multiple leading-edge treatment options at Providence Cancer Institute.
Half or the tumors were removed by surgery. The remaining tumors reduced in size after chemoembolization and radioembolization – targeted therapies that inject chemotherapy drugs and glass radiation beads into the blood stream near the tumors. Monthly injections alleviate the side effects of living with a partial digestive system.
On Dec. 6, 2022, an annual check-up revealed that cancer has spread to his bones and is inoperable. “Up to this point in my cancer journey, I kind of knew what to expect. Now, I don’t know anything.”
But Jeff is not giving up hope.
Patient Story #3:
In 2007, Mark Williams learned he had 14 tumors in his lungs and esophagus. His doctor told him he had stage IV melanoma and would not live more than a year.
Mark and his family refused to accept this devastating timeline and sought a second opinion from Brendan Curti, M.D., at Providence Cancer Institute. At the time, Dr. Curti was in the early stages of researching an alternative cancer treatment involving Interleukin 2.
Interleukin 2 is an aggressive form of immunotherapy, a treatment that uses the body’s own immune system to destroy cancer cells. It can treat some types of cancer very successfully, but it can also make patients very sick. Mark relied upon his family and his Providence care team to ease debilitating side effects.
Mark is celebrating 15 years since his diagnosis, and he continues to share his story with other patients undergoing cancer treatment.
“We like to say that in our community, no one fights alone. That’s what I do…speak with folks in the cancer community and try to keep them positive.”
Patient Story #4:
Kyle, husband and father of two young boys, discovered he had thymoma, which is cancer of the thymus. An aggresive tumor in his chest was nearly the size of a grapefruit. Kyle’s treatment involved surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Still, the cancer returned four times, showing up in his spine, lungs and chest.
Two years ago, Kyle learned about a clincial trial at Providence Cancer Institute Franz Clinic for individuals with advanced solid tumors. As part of a Phase 1 trial, Kyle was treated with a new immunotherapy drug called Lorigerlimab. Today, Kyle’s scans show minimal scarring but no signs of cancer!
“One of my main goals is I did not want to be remembered by stories or in photos. I wanted my children to feel me, touch me, know me and hear my voice.”
Thanks to this philanthropy-supported clinical trial, Kyle’s wish was granted.
Additional Tools
PROVIDENCE TAX ID: 93-1231494
PLEASE MAIL CHECKS TO:
Melodee Boyer
Administrative Assistant
Providence Portland Medical Foundation
4805 NE Glisan Street Suite 1G14
Portland, OR 97213
