Sarcoma Sucks
Below you will find a guest blog from our friend, Dusty Harman.
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sarcoma sucks.
I don’t even like capitalizing the word, so please allow me some grammatical leeway so I can be spiteful to this nasty form of soft tissue and bone cancer. It’s been plenty nasty to my family, so I have to take my shots back at it when I can.
I’ve had it with this disease. Its aggressiveness is only matched by its rarity, and we don’t know nearly enough about how to treat it effectively.
sarcoma takes mobility; it takes freedom and independence; it takes dignity; and worst of all - it can take our loved ones far too soon. My family knows this all too well.
We lost my late wife, Jenny, three years ago to epithelioid sarcoma. She was 40 and a mother of two – Claire (16) and Cooper (11). Last year we lost Jenny’s uncle Jeff Grose (63), a beloved father, husband, uncle, and friend, who lost his battle with leiomyosarcoma. Jenny’s grandmother and Jeff’s mother, Faye Grose, was also taken too soon after facing fibrous histiocytoma.
All three battled and did their best to keep a brave face on in the face of a cancer that just kept coming no matter was thrown at it. We need help finding better solutions for sarcoma. We need research specific to sarcoma to find breakthroughs. We need hope.
And that’s why we started the Sarcoma Sucks 5k .in 2025. If this cancer is going to keep attacking, the only solution is to stand our ground and fight right back.
The inaugural Sarcoma Sucks 5k had 200 participants and raised more than $12,000 to support sarcoma patients and their families. 17,000 people are diagnosed with sarcoma every year, and thousands more are battling every day. They face treatment plans that all too often are one-size fits all because there aren’t enough studies to show what treatments are most effective. We need to support these clinical trials and help find a path to a cure.
For Year 2, Sarcoma Sucks will benefit the Move For Jenn Foundation. We have worked with MFJ for a couple of years now, and their mission and values are very similar to what’s on our heart – Be The Light for patients and families that are facing the dire impacts of sarcoma. We will work together to use all proceeds to fund a sarcoma-specific trial at Levine Cancer Center.
We will fight…..and we hope you will join us! Whether you Register to join us in-person on Sat, March 21 at Harris Road Middle School, or you provide a tax-deductible donation directly to MFJ, you will be helping to support this badly-needed research so we can create a future with more Sarcoma Survivors.
Learn more and support the Sarcoma Sucks 5K here.
Sarcoma Sucks 5K
Saturday, March 21
Harris Road Middle School - Concord, NC
Can't attend the Sarcoma Sucks 5K, but still want to support? You can make your gift here.
