This will be my 3rd year riding the Pan Mass Challenge and raising money for life-saving cancer research and treatment at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

This year my biggest challenge will be raising the $5500, due to the corona virus outbreak. I understand people fear the unknown, and I do too. I have a business that I hope will survive if we have to close for a few weeks, I also have employees I feel responsible for, but I also know in my heart that that’s probably what all the cancer patients feel when they are first diagnosed. I can only imagine the fear that rushes through their body the moment that doctors says - “you have stage 3 lung cancer” (or any other cancer for that matter).
The last 4 years I’ve heard so many stories of people getting diagnosed too late or not being allowed treatment due to no insurance, or even starting a treatment and not being able to finish it due to inability to afford it... This has to come to an end. And that is why I continue to ride every year in the Pan Mass Challenge. Because every dollar that is being raised in this bike-a-thon goes 100% to the cause.

I know covid-19 is scary and we don’t even know what the mortality rate is or how quickly it will spread, but sadly we know for a fact that 39% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetime. In 2019, an estimated 15,780 children and adolescents age 0-19 were diagnosed with cancer and 1,960 died from the disease.

So please open your hearts and DONATE!

Let’s try and make a difference TOGETHER!

Sincerely,

Ani Petrov