Walk Around the World for Brain Tumo(u)rs and the Inaugural International
Brain Tumo(u)r Awareness Week – News Update.


Dear friend of the international brain tumour community,

The countdown to the inaugural International Brain Tumour Awareness Week has
begun!

We look forward to hearing more about what you/your organisation is planning
for this important week in the international brain tumour community's
calendar.

We have been gathering many contributions towards our target of circling the
world at the Equator (40,000 kms or 24,901 miles) by adding up the distances
covered in fund-raising and awareness-raising walks for brain tumours… Here
are a few examples: Jim in Hawaii has collected 2,016 miles from 300 fitness
walkers who use the Queen Kapiolani Park for their regular exercise …
Racewalkers in Victoria, Australia, contributed 387 kms to the world target and
raised $600 for the neuroscience unit at a local hospital … Fifteen walkers
in
Essex, England, contributed 210 miles in “A Walk for Trina” and raised
funds
for Brain Tumour UK … 3,200 walkers in Chicago took part in the ABTA Path to
Progress walk …

There are walkers ready to tackle the Great Wall of China and the High
Arctic in northern Canada …Veronica O’Connor (UK) has donated the 1400 kms
she
walked from Fatima in Portugal to Lourdes in France via Santiago Compostela in
Spain. There have been many other walks – too many to mention in detail in
this email but they will all be acknowledged in our final coverage of the World
Walk. We are definitely on track to reach our 40,000 kms target.

Specific events to be held during the October Awareness Week of 21-27
October are also emerging: A brain tumour scientific conference will be held in
Linz, Austria … On 21 October a picnic for families of brain tumour patients
will be held in Adelaide, Australia … On the same day in Sweden there will be
a
brain tumour awareness walk across a bridge in Goteborg and a walk in
Northamptonshire in the UK… In Belgium on 26 October the brain tumour support
group
Werkgroep Hersentumoren will hold a media conference … The next day in Italy
there will be the Irene Onlus run in memory of a former brain tumour
patient and also a walk in the Netherlands … We are also anticipating walks
during
October that are associated with the USA NBTF Angel Adventure Walks and the
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada which has its annual Spring Sprint… but any
awareness-raising activity during the week is appropriate, it doesn’t have
to be a walk …

So far, we have had notifications of support from more than 60
organisations around the world and our main brochure has been printed in 6
languages with
a total print run of 22,000 copies … Hundreds of notice board posters have
also been distributed.

The Australian racewalker and world 50 kms record holder Nathan Deakes will
be competing in the World Athletics Championships at Osaka, Japan, next
Saturday (1 September). His photo and words of personal support appear in our
main
brochure. You can send a message of encouragement to Nathan before his big
race by going to:
_http://www.athletics.com.au/fanzone/2007_world_championships_centre/messages_of\
_support_
(http://www.athletics.com.au/fanzone/2007_world_championships_centre/messages_of\
_support)

Our promotional brochure continues to be widely distributed … The 1200
participants expected at the European Association of Neurological Societies
(EANS)
conference next month will each receive a copy in their delegates’ bag …
The IBTA will have an exhibit stand at the European Cancer Conference (ECCO14)
to be held in Barcelona during 24-27 September. We plan to have versions of
the brochure available in the Spanish and Catalan languages for the local
participants from among the anticipated 12,000 delegates, as well as versions
in
English, French, Spanish, German and Polish.

Five things you can do:

NOTIFY US of your event so we can list it on the Awareness Week and World
Walk website

PROMOTE the World Walk and Awareness Week on your website and in your
printed material between now and October.

LINK your website to the IBTA's so that visitors to your site who are
interested can easily link to more information about the activities. This is
the
URL your webmaster should link to: _www.theibta.org_ (http://www.theibta.org/)

DONATE any mileage from sponsored walks to the target for the Walk Around
the World - remember we don't want any funds raised, we just want the mileage

GET READY to spread the word about the Awareness Week and Walk through your
local newspapers, radio and television stations - we will be preparing a
press pack to help you. Our major international media announcement will be
based
around international statistics of brain tumours that we have commissioned
from the CBTRUS.

Good luck!

Denis Strangman (Chair)
International Brain Tumour Alliance – IBTA
_www.theibta.org_ (http://www.theibta.org/)

Kathy Oliver (Secretary)
PO Box 244, Tadworth, Surrey
KT20 5WQ, United Kingdom
Tel:+ (44) + (0) + 1737 813872
Fax: + (44) + (0) +1737 812712
Mob: + (44) + (0) + 777 571 2569
The International Brain Tumour Alliance is a not-for-profit, limited
liability company registered in England and Wales, registered number 6031485.
Registered office: Roxburghe House, 273-287 Regent Street, London W1B 2AD,
United
Kingdom. All correspondence should be sent to the Secretary's address above,
not to the registered office.




Keep your faith, cherish your reason, treasure your mind and hold to your
own good purpose like our meningimate Chuck did

I have added my 28 MNG questions to ask your medical team and 150 things to
think about with your significant others for any brain tumor again in two new
entries after my Iraq views, if you'd like to read more
Please look for my August and October 2006 "view archives" section on the
URL below (my AOL journal webpage) to find my musings on meningioma tales
(dural tails or growth spurs) and other GREY MATTERS of interest to me about
MIFEPREX, a badly maligned alternative drug therapy for meningioma brain
tumors,
my views about donating doomed surplus frozen embryonic lab specimens to
medical science, the birth of new brain cells, the hope of neurogenesis vers
brain
radiation injury, medical abbreviations, chat lingo etc

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