Scare Brain Cancer Away 5K

Now in our eighth year, this race is designed to help a local community member battling brain cancer. This year's recipient is Joseph Paul Surace. He was diagnosed with a Glioblastoma in July 6th 2015 at the age of 32. Joe was told his disease was inoperable, and was given only a few months to live. Joe and his family were devastated with this terrible news. He has had several rounds of Chemotherapy and Radiation in Rochester when he was first diagnosed.

With no hope of survival, Joe's family reached out to doctors in NYC and they thought differently. In August Joe had brain surgery in NYC and the surgeon was able to remove to the human eye what amounted to 100% tumor removal. It was the size of a small pop can.

Able to qualify for clinical trials, Joseph is now undergoing another several rounds of Chemotherapy. During all of this Joseph has suffered through Pulmonary Embolisms (PE), Kidney Stones, Hematomas, the loss of work, traveling expenses, and medical bills. Without the support of his family, clinical trials, and research center for Glioblastomas at Cornell Weill Joe may not have lived through all of this. We celebrated his 33rd birthday November 12, 2015 when the doctors in Rochester had great doubt that he would live to see his next birthday. We continue to hope and pray through these battles in hope to win this war again brain cancer.