Thank you for visiting my fundraising page! I'm excited to raise funds to help cancer survivorship through the Wellness & Integrative Medicine Program at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport – Feist-Weiller Cancer Center.
Weekly the Cancer Walking Group hosts Survivor Saturdays, walking in a local park with students, survivors, and community supporters. The FWCC Cancer Survivorship Walkathon is our annual event celebrating survivorship and those in treatment, consisting of a walk, festivities, food trucks, and an educational health fair!
The funds raised from this event support great programming for the community of cancer survivors in North Louisiana. Any donation would be greatly appreciated!!
2024 Cancer Survivorship Walkathon
Inspired by the stories of cancer survivors from Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport—Feist-Weiller Cancer Center and moved to make a difference in the local community, medical students from LSU Health Shreveport in 2022 started a weekly walking group for survivors and their supporters. In June 2022, the students joined forces with Feist-Weiller to hold the first-ever Cancer Survivorship Walkathon to celebrate survivors, those in treatment, and a community of supporters in North Louisiana while raising funds supporting survivorship.
Proceeds from Walkathon benefit the Wellness & Integrative Medicine Program at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport – Feist-Weiller Cancer Center. This program includes extensive support for Feist-Weiller Cancer Center Survivors, including resources on mind, menu, and movement to improve patient outcomes as they transition from treatment to a healthy lifestyle after cancer.
Inspired by the stories of cancer survivors from Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport—Feist-Weiller Cancer Center and moved to make a difference in the local community, in 2022, medical students from LSU Health Shreveport started a weekly walking group for survivors and their supporters. In June 2022, the students joined forces with Feist-Weiller to hold the first-ever Cancer Survivorship Walkathon to celebrate survivors, those in treatment, and a community of supporters in North Louisiana while raising funds for Wellness & Integrative Medicine at the cancer center.
Today, the students have formed the Cancer Walking Group and launched Survivor Saturdays – a weekly walking group for survivors and supporters. They walk each Saturday at 9am at Betty Virginia Park in Shreveport.