‘Global Grace Cancer Run’ on 9th October
Hyderabad: The coveted Guinness World Records winner ‘Global Grace Cancer Run’ hosted by Grace Cancer Foundation, will be held on 9th October, 2022, across the globe in the hybrid formats of both physical and virtual run. Chief Guest Ms Amala Akkineni, Actor and Animal Welfare Activist; released the Global Grace Cancer Run 2022 poster, at Hotel Daspalla, Jubilee Hills, today. Guest of Honour Shri Ajay Misra, IAS (Retd.), Former Special Chief Secretary, Government of Telangana and Dr Chinnababu Sunkavalli, Founder & CEO, Grace Cancer Foundation; Mr Sujatha Rao, IPS (Retd.), Dr Prameela Rani, Founder Trustee, Grace Cancer Foundation and Mr Niranjan Raj, Race Director of Global Grace Cancer Run 2022; graced the occasion among others.
The theme of the annual run for this year is ‘Run the extra mile to gift a smile’, to encourage runners from across the Globe to participate in the run and contribute their might to the noble cause of cancer awareness, prevention and early detection, in the fight against the dreaded disease.
The run will be held in three different distance categories of 5K, 10K and 21.1K (Half Marathon), in the hybrid format of both physical and virtual. The physical run will be held at Hyderabad, Bangalore, Vijayawada, Vizag, Guntur, Nizamabad, Davanagere and in cities across 130 countries globally. Participants keen on virtual run format can join the race from any part of the world. Runners are expected to run between 5.00 and 9.00 am; in their respective time zones globally. The interested enthusiasts can access details of the run and register at https://gracecancerrun2022.iq301.com/
Grace Cancer Foundation is rendering yeoman service by striving to raise cancer awareness among the under-served and under-privileged communities. It facilitates screening camps for them and advises them for timely treatment. This is indeed a step towards better and healthier tomorrow and a footprint to be left in the book of humanity, says Ms Amala Akkineni. It’s true that my father-in-law Akkineni Nageshwar Rao garu had cancer in the last stages, but he worked till the end, while suffering from cancer he worked on Manam cinema. Lying on the hospital bed, in the last stages he dubbed for the film Manam. He made clear to everyone that you need not look sad, because I had such a wonderful life with the blessings of Telugu people across the world. Yes, when the word cancer came to us as a family, it brought along a lot of fear and worry, we knew there will be pain and suffering and to so many people across the world cancer is a very frightening word and when that emotion comes, kind people, kind doctors of the family step up to educate the family on how to cope. Today Dr Chinnababu and Dr Pramila have come together with their entire Grace Cancer Foundation team to bring the support to the world. In our family there were the doctors from KIMS hospital, when it happened to my family we had Usha Lakshmi Breast Cancer Foundation’s Dr Raghuram come forward and you know that association you have with your doctor who has helped you never goes, there is always that gratitude, in your time of need these people were always there to hold your hand and help your family deal with that. Dr Chinnababu educated me that there are a hundred types of cancers and of course we all know that cancer doesn’t see any discrimination, whether you are child or a grown-up elder person, whether you are rich or poor, whatever be the color of your skin or race, it doesn’t distinguish, it will come to everybody. But the good news is that the cancer research has made amazing advances, the treatment available is amazing, but most of all early detection can save lives and that I think is the strength of Grace Cancer Foundation and what they are trying to do is to tell people to take charge of your health and find out early if you have cancer and if you don’t take your health very seriously. I think that is the deeper issue for cancer or any other illness that hits us, we don’t love ourselves enough, we don’t love our home planet enough and therefore we neglected everything. I have been working for environment and animals for a longtime as Dr Chinnababu has been working for cancer and today, I offer my strength and voice to make an appeal to people not just in Hyderabad but across the world to participate in this Grace Global Cancer Run and the date of it is October 9th, which gives you plenty of time to train and get ready. The causes of cancer are associated with many things, it’s in the air, its in our food, most of the weedicides and pesticides are known to cause cancer, yet they are widely used, your very food that you eat every day is full of toxins that can cause cancer. It’s in the air, food, it’s in our lifestyles and today is the day you can commit by saying ok I have a Global cancer run to attend in October, let me get up and take charge of my life, if you never walked or run it’s a good day to start, the weather is beautiful, step out, attempt one kilometer, then two then three, may be you will take part with your family in the 5K run or push yourself and go up to 10k and may be you can be a champion and finish the entire 21K, but please do this for yourself, do this for your family and do this for your future. My sincere gratitude to all the wonderful doctors who helped so many families navigate illness to better health, who have been the guiding light, who have taken extra efforts to bring awareness to humanity, gratitude to all the researchers who are finding cures to human suffering and my very good wishes to all those battling cancer. Hope to see everyone out there on the 9th of October at the Grace Global Cancer Run.
Cancer screening and detection had taken a back seat and most detected with cancer postponed the treatment during the last two years due to the global pandemic, which created havoc in our lives. However, this late detection and treatment only increased the burden of cancer with several patients presenting themselves in terminal stage. Therefore, enhanced effort to create awareness to undergo early screening and detection is the need of the hour. It’s time for us to bounce back by refocusing our efforts on awareness and restoring our health. What’s heartening is that most cancers are curable with early detection. ‘Global Grace Cancer Run’ is an initiative to awaken the world to the lurking danger of cancer and work towards early detection, says Dr Chinnababu Sunkavalli.
