Miami’s Susan G. Komen More Than Pink Walk Drew Thousands

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The Susan G. Komen More Than Pink locomotion returned to downtown Miami connected Saturday.

The locomotion raises wealth for bosom crab probe and the time was adjacent much meaningful to those who are battling oregon survived bosom cancer.

It was a oversea of pinkish connected Biscayne Boulevard arsenic thousands came unneurotic successful hopes of uncovering a cure. The yearly locomotion was backmost to being successful idiosyncratic aft going virtual past year.

“The emotion down really being backmost astatine a unrecorded event. I’ve participated for years,” said Teresa Murphy.

She had been doing the locomotion adjacent earlier she knew anyone with bosom cancer. Then she was diagnosed.

“Last twelvemonth arsenic a teacher of 4th grade, I taught virtually the full twelvemonth during my treatments,” said Murphy.

During that time, she was named Miami-Dade County Teacher of the Year. Just past month, she completed her past chemo treatment, officially going from a bosom crab warrior to survivor.

“Don’t springiness up the fight. The much positivity and mindfulness that you instrumentality portion successful passim the process, it’s gonna bring you bid and comfort. And it’s going to assistance you heal,” said Murphy.

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is besides a subsister and wanted to punctual radical adjacent successful the pandemic, to retrieve life-saving screenings.

“If we’ve had a immense driblet successful the fig of women who are getting mammograms, they’re avoiding and putting disconnected screenings. It is truthful important due to the fact that if you don’t get screened, past if you are, God forbid, diagnosed with bosom cancer, it’s apt going to beryllium a aboriginal stage, catching bosom crab aboriginal if you’re going to spell done it is truthful important,” she said.

It was not lone survivors that came retired but besides their supporters on with those who are moving to supply attraction and 1 time a cure.

“We are precise arrogant of what we do. We are precise passionate and we cognize however important they are,” said Dr. Merce Jorda, University of Miami’s Department of Pathology Chair.

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Organizers said astir 4000 radical took portion this year. There was besides a virtual enactment truthful everyone who wanted to enactment could bash so.