Run Over Cancer 5K to be Held July 6

Registration is now open for the 5th Annual Run Over Cancer 5K, which will be held July 6 at Council Rock High School South.

The event is a fundraiser for Fund a Cure for Pancreatic Cancer, a non-profit group dedicated to raising awareness about pancreatic cancer and advocating for increased federal funding for lifesaving research.

The 5th Annual Run Over Cancer 5K will begin at 8:30 a.m.; same-day registration starts at 7:30 a.m. This year, there will be a quarter-mile Kids' Race, which will be held on the track at 8:15 a.m. 

"Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers with only a 5 percent five year survival rate and it claims more than twice as many U.S. lives as HIV/AIDS each year with over 40,000 lost to this cancer yearly in the United States.  The average life expectancy of someone diagnosed with pancreatic cancer today is still only six months," according to a press release from Fund a Cure.

Over the last four years, Fund A Cure for Pancreatic Cancer has donated more than $100,000 to the pancreatic cancer research team of Jefferson University Hospital led by doctors Charles Yeo and Jonathan Brody.  

Runners can register online at www.fundacure.com. The cost is $30 in advance and $40 for same-day registration. The first 400 registrants will receive a Run Over Cancer 5K race  t-shirt.  Prizes will be given to the top three male and top three female finishers and the top finisher in each of seven different age groups. 

Special prizes will be given to the top three participants who raise the most money through the online sponsorship program detailed on the website. 

The premier corporate sponsors are Mainline Metals, Jefferson University Hospital and the Newtown Athletic Club, which is sponsoring the Kids’ Race.

Gold level sponsors are Corner Bakery Café, Monument Bank and PennFab.  Silver level sponsors are Applebee’s of Newtown,  Begley, Carlin and Mandio, LLP, the Rohan Group, Print Mail Systems, and M.J. Byelich and Associates.