Cambridge people: Toner hosts fund-raiser
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Scott Toner and his family hosted their third cancer fund-raiser on April 10 at the VFW on Huron Avenue in Cambridge. They raised $11,000 for the American Cancer Society.
All proceeds from this event will go toward the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life in Cambridge taking place May 7 and 8 at Harvard University's Gordon Indoor Track. This event offers everyone in a community a chance to participate in the fight against cancer. Teams of people camp out and take turns walking or running around a track.
Toner became involved with the ACS after he was diagnosed with neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas in December 2000. He has been successfully fighting cancer since the diagnosis though different treatments. For the past two years, he has been on the experimental drug Endostatin.
When asked how he became involved in fund raising for the ACS, Toner explained the relationship between his treatment and the society, "What I think is amazing about ACS is that they were funding Judah Folkman, the man who helped invent Endostatin and other anti-angieogenesis drugs, over 30 years ago. When the medical field did not believe that Dr. Folkman's theory would bear fruit, the ACS gave him money. What I think is amazing is that ACS has been helping in the research field for a long time and that slowly treatments have been created to cure cancer. I felt that I owed ACS for their persistence in funding different researchers in the cure of cancer."
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