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What are YOU Doing on October 2nd?

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October 2nd 1996 is the day Lance was diagnosed with stage 3 testicular cancer and began the fight of his life. This year on October 2, we celebrate LIVESTRONG Day. It?s the day members of our community celebrate the spirit of LIVESTRONG by organizing hundreds of events and raising awareness about the fight against cancer in communities across the globe.

LIVESTRONG Day is critically important this year ? and we need you to step up and help. We’re making a major push to world leaders this fall, urging them to close the huge gap in global cancer funding. By joining an international wave of coordinated grassroots activity on LIVESTRONG Day you can make world leaders and the media sit up and pay attention to this disease while educating your own community about the fight against cancer.

450 people just like you have already signed up to host an event on LIVESTRONG Day ? but we need more. If we can get 1,000 local events, we can dramatically show world leaders that cancer touches every corner of the world.

Will you host an event in your community? We make it easy to choose an event, register it and tell all your friends.

Hosting an event can seem daunting. But being a part of LIVESTRONG Day is simple. You can host any type of event you want, whether it?s a bake sale or a bike ride, fundraising in your neighborhood or getting your co-workers to wear yellow. And you can use our tools to create the event online and invite your friends, families, and neighbors with a few simple clicks. You?ll be amazed by the response ? and RSVPs! – you get from the rest of the LIVESTRONG community.Register your event today!.

By hosting an event on LIVESTRONG Day, you can help your friends and neighbors understand that fighting cancer isn?t just up to doctors and researchers ? it?s up to all of us. And when I meet these world leaders, I?ll point to these 1,000 community events as proof that there?s a movement ready to push for a commitment in every corner of the globe. Please take a minute to add your event – large or small – to the cause.

  • todd

    live the dream

  • Sean Kennedy

    Buying 50 LIVESTRONG wristbands and giving them out 2 friends and strangers……Peace,Sean

  • Pat

    its my dad’s birthday…but he passed away 5years ago due to colon cancer :( ….will dedicate that day in prayer for him

  • Pascal

    I’m wearing Yellow !!!!

  • B.J.

    Praying for my friend Ed who will be undergoing surgery on the 6th – diagnosed in March with testicular cancer

  • Leslie

    Celebrating my mom and friends who are survivors, and remembering my father-in-law, who passed away 10/2/08 of stomach cancer.

  • Sue

    I will help my local Builder’s Club raise awareness and support for those in our community affected by cancer. I am going to speak to the club about Livestrong and then we will sell yellow ribbons to students to help raise some money to donate to the Livestrong foundation.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rica.mendes Rica

    I can’t do it on 10/2 as it’s in the middle of High Holidays, but I’m doing it (belated) on 11/11/09! A Taste of Yellow (inspired by Barbara Harris) LIVESTRONG Challenge! For a fee of $18, bakers and cooks (professional and just-for-fun) will bring their best “Taste of Yellow” treats to be photographed, sampled and judged for a prize!

  • Jon Colbert

    Getting friends, family and coworkers to wear yellow to support the fight against cancer. Posting liveSTRONG articles at work and getting the word out to all men over forty to get a PSA test and prostate exam. Prostate cancer is showing up in guys as early as forty. I was 49 years old when I was told that I had this cancer, after surgery PSA numbers started to go up and I was told the cancer is somwhere in the bone but never give up,fight the fight! liveSTRONG!!!

  • Debra Martin

    We have declared EVERY Friday “Fight-Like-a-Girl-Friday” to show our love & support for our friend while she undergoes treatment for Ovarian Cancer.

    So, as it happens, this October 2nd we’ll be sporting our “Fight Like A Girl” T-Shirts & spreading awareness while we support our girl!

    She has shown me that “LiveSTRONG” is more than a color, it’s a mission…it’s a mindset…and that it’s time for a cure!

    We will also be attending this event in NJ for anyone who is interested:

    “Cocktails for a Cause” Celebrating LiveSTRONG Day and supporting the LAF and CINJ

    http://womenofteal.blogspot.com/2009/09/cocktails-for-cause-celebrating.html

  • http://janell-sufferingsuccotash.blogspot.com POD

    I’m posting a blog and I’ve contacted other cancer & health bloggers to remind folks of the day. I also bought some items to give away on that day. It’s my anniversary too.

  • http://janell-sufferingsuccotash.blogspot.com POD

    http://janell-sufferingsuccotash.blogspot.com

    Sorry,thought that post would show up.

  • http://www.ontspanning-kanker.be ontspanning kanker

    1/bike ride in flanders
    2/mountainbike ride on circuit worldchampionship cyclocross
    3/oldtimercar happening with survivors
    4/catholic celebration in Godelieve church
    end of the day 2 october 5/barbecue with survivors

  • Rosie Weaver

    I will Praise God for helping my husband get thru this difficult time, and continue to pray that God will give him the strength and carry him thru to the end when we can say that he is a survivor! I will also remember my father in law who passed away from throat cancer. I will join the 5k LIVESTRONG challenge, and I will also ask all my friends/family to wear yellow on October 2nd to support the fight against cancer.

  • http://www.myspace.com/livestrongfresnoclovis Michelle Maroot Diebert

    We are hosting the Livestrong Day Concert at the Starline in Fresno, CA.

    4 Live Bands for one great cause:

    Roger Perry
    DB & The Struggle
    MoFo Party Band
    Patrick Contreras

    10-02-09
    Doors open at 8 PM
    Starline
    831 E. Fern
    Fresno, CA 93728
    $10.00 donation at the door.

    Join us!

    http://www.myspace.com/livestrongfresnoclovis
    http://www.livestrongfresnoclovis.webs.com
    Face Book Fan Page, Search:
    Livestrong Army Fresno/Clovis

    Join us on 10-02-09 at Fresno City Hall where the Mayor of Fresno will present a proclamation marking
    October 2nd as Livestrong Day in Fresno, CA.
    8:30 AM, Fresno City Hall

    We are fighting in memory of Matthew Maroot, age 29,
    and Marty Clifton, age 27. Two young men taken much too soon by this horrible disease.

  • http://letsrun!! Scott Patnode

    I am running the boston marathon course with as many like minded runners show up on the start line. Run the last 5 miles or the whole 26. (not race pace) I want too get out on course & where my live strong Jersey and run too boston. The pain I feal when I run 26 miles goes away but lets me know how mutch your body can endure.. Too all have a great live strong day! you dont have too run a marathon but chalange your self in some way on 10/2 more info on my run go too LETS RUN on the live strong events page Peace !!

  • http://gina.whitacre@loudoun.gov Gina Whitacre

    Iam praying for my dear friend/sister and baseball player Carmen as she battles cancer for the second time. I am “keep the FAITH” wearing my yellow band
    and my pink band – praying for a cure soon.
    “Every one around the World wear yellow on Oct. 2nd”

  • http://andyslounge@yahoo.com.au Andrew Morris

    Just letting you all know on October 4 th im racing the Gld Coast half ironman and every half ironman in the Australian series in a LIVESTRONG race suite to create awareness of cancer, as in August last year i was diagnosed with testicular cancer, i had surgery and 3 months of chemo up to 5 days a week and 5 hours a day , but now im a survivor and plan to stay that way. Its now time for me to give something back.Ill try and post some photos of each race. Thanks LIVESTRONG. Andrew Morris.Gold Coast Australia.

  • joe zuther

    I’m wearing yellow and will hopefully have some time for a ride!
    We’ll have an event at the Sebastian (FL) gym

    Live Strong!

  • Joe Zuther

    I’ll wear yellow and hopefully have time for a ride!
    We’ll have a LIVESTRONG Day event at our gym in Sebastian, FL

  • Jennifer

    Just wanted to wish Lance a Happy Anniversary. So happy that you are well. I wear a yellow LIVESTRONG shirt at least once a week, and have NEVER taken off my braclet, not even to deliver my daughter !! The work you do for this organization is wonderful ; so lucky to know that you exist in this world. LIVESTRONG !!!

  • Ivo

    Congrats Lance! Fantastic and inspiring!!
    I follow your carreer since 2005 and wear the yellow braclet I got in NYC when you run the NYC Marathon (I did it also)in 2006.
    I will offer an extra donation to a Cancer Patient and Family Members Support Association in my city, wear yellow T-shirt and pray for everybody who need and for the world leaders to put fight against cancer as one of their top priorities.