{"id":205600,"date":"2025-09-06T18:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/205600\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:12:12","slug":"kickoff-party-for-velosano-bike-to-cure-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/205600\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickoff party for VeloSano Bike to Cure fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STRONGSVILLE, Ohio \u2014\u00a0Hundreds of cyclists are heading out Saturday morning for the annual VeloSano Bike to Cure fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One hundred percent of proceeds from VeloSano go toward cancer research at Cleveland Clinic<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Over 2,700 cyclists will take part in the ride to raise funds<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Genetic testing helped one woman catch a cancer diagnosis early<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The event raises money for cancer research at Cleveland Clinic.<\/p>\n<p>One woman and cancer survivor said she is doing the ride for her kids.<\/p>\n<p>Rose Sanders watched as her mom struggled through 11 years of cancer treatments.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother left her a binder filled with her medical journey as well as medical family history.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders\u2019 mom passed away when Sanders was 30-years-od.<\/p>\n<p>She said she didn\u2019t want the same fate for her children and had genetic testing in her twenties. It found she carries CDH1, a gene that greatly increases your chances of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The gene increases people\u2019s chance of breast cancer by 40 to 50% according to Dr. Jame Abraham, breast oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic. He said it increases the risk of stomach cancer by 25 to 35%.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham said genetic testing involves taking a blood test.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders was diagnosed with stomach cancer after the birth of her fourth child. She was 32<\/p>\n<p>Abraham said the gene is rare compared to BRCA1 and BRCA2, genes more commonly known to cause breast cancer. He said he recommends anyone with a family history of stomach cancer to speak to a doctor at age 25.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing she carried the gene meant Sanders got screened more often and was able to find cancer in its early stages.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders ended up having her stomach removed at age 32. She decided to have a double mastectomy as a preventative measure at age 35.<\/p>\n<p>Her pathology report came back positive for breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Because it was found early, she ended up not needing chemotherapy or radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders will be riding 25 miles in Saturday\u2019s VeloSano bike ride. she&#8217;ll be joined by 2,700 other riders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that with the funds raised \u2013 especially with VeloSano \u2013 that my kids won\u2019t have to do what I\u2019ve done and hopefully there will be some preventative choice for them,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STRONGSVILLE, Ohio \u2014\u00a0Hundreds of cyclists are heading out Saturday morning for the annual VeloSano Bike to Cure fundraiser.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":205601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[21399,7448,5281,815,9829,113217,50,1573,83412,83406,159,52,67,132,68,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-205600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-app-human-interest","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-ctv","11":"tag-genetics","12":"tag-human-interest","13":"tag-kimberly-perez","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ohio","16":"tag-ohio-cleveland-top-stories","17":"tag-ohio-what-you-need-to-know","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115158708895158033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}