Testimonials
The Lobo Cancer Challenge brought people together
KOAT-TV covered the event on Saturday, Sept. 20, when 1,940 participants, hundreds of volunteers, sponsors and supporters turned out together to raise money for ongoing research at the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center. Participants challenged themselves with walking, running, climbing stairs and bicycling events. A survivor shares how she sees the Lobo Cancer Challenge as an antidote to the pain, fear and loneliness of cancer. Another man said he wasn't "expecting all this, to be out on the Lobo field ... and everything you see here and the start-finish line. It's cool."
The Lobo Cancer Challenge supports New Mexicans fighting cancer
The Patient and Family Support Services Program is one of the funds Challengers may choose for their donations. Support therapists, registered dietitians, a case manager, a resource specialist and others are available to help cancer patients manage after diagnosis. The program helps with things like transportation, lodging, food supplements and medical equipment that cancer patients may need. In this coverage from KOAT-TV, a patient attests to the difference this made for her experience.
The Lobo Cancer Challenge provides training for future scientists
The Training and Education of Cancer Health Professionals is one of the funds Challengers may choose for their donations. This fund includes support for the Continuing Umbrella of Research Experience (CURE) program, which offers students from high school through college the opportunity to work alongside scientists and engage first hand in research. They can explore other avenues and are offered support in navigating next steps in their career. In this coverage from KOAT-TV, a student describes support and guidance for choices in their career path, including UNM seminars and other activities along with UNM Faculty and “near-peer” mentorship.
When You Support The Lobo Cancer Challenge, you can...
...help provide pilot funding to a number of our researchers. Pilot funding helps kick-start the new research projects that deepen our understanding of cancer and how to treat it.
Michelle Ozbun, PhD and her team are transforming
cancer medications, developing a topical gel to treat
cancer precursors caused by HPV. Ozbun’s work is made
possible by pilot programs and funds
raised from the Lobo Cancer Challenge.
Dr. Shashank Cingam recently launched CAR-T
therapy. CAR-T white blood cells recognize cancer cells
with a re-engineered new receptor and they
are re-injected into the body to fight the cancer cells.
Dr. Avinash Sahu uses the power of Artificial
Intelligence in the Sahu lab to compile
documented research faster than humanly
possible for doctors to use in treatment decisions.
Dr. Matthew Fero has brought Allogeneic Transplant
of donor stem cells, a life-saving treatment for blood
cancer patients, to New Mexico. Ana Aguileara
discusses her experience with this treatment.
Fundraisers like the Lobo Cancer Challenge are so important
Dr. Matthew Fero says the cancer center is needed in New Mexico. “Some of my patients have told me they did not even know there was a Comprehensive Cancer Center right down the street from them. They would travel out of state... and weren’t getting the same quality of care we can provide here... A lot of times we struggle in the early phases of research, where we don’t have the funds to get things going. That’s why fundraisers like the Lobo Cancer Challenge are so important.”
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