The Ride to Conquer Cancer:

Riding for all of us.....

AN EPIC RIDE TO CONQUER CANCER

Michael K Wilhelm

104 percent of goal achieved.

Goal: $12,000.00
Achieved: $12,501.01

Fundraising Honor Roll

RBSM LLP 
$2,500.00
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Mr. thomas poletti Sr. 
$1,000.00
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Sarah A. 
$1,000.00
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ImmuneRegen BioSciences, Inc. 
$500.00
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Jeffrey  Perry 
$500.00
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sari namaste center 
$500.00
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Joseph Salvani 
$300.00
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Jeff Sledge 
$250.00
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dr&mrs seymour kessler 
$250.00
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Dave Briskie-JavaFit 
$250.00
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Jeffrey R. Perry Law Firm, P.C. 
$250.00
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The Kusiatin Family 
$250.00
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Carl & Charlene O'Berry 
$250.00
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Tim Starke 
$250.00
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R. Hariri 
$200.00
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The Investor Relations Group 
$200.00
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5 Day Challenge 
$200.00
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FreeMind Group LLC 
$150.00
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The Trout Group 
$150.00
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Dr. Jeffrey Friedman 
$150.00
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Victoria Hayes 
$100.00
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Yael Weiss 
$100.00
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Carol Kraft 
$100.00
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bill lannon 
$100.00
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Jim and Beatriz Scritchfield 
$100.00
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Granger Whitelaw 
$100.00
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Neil and Patricia DeAtley 
$100.00
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Allen Notowitz 
$100.00
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Proud Of You Michael--Best Of Luck, Marcia 
$100.00
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Pranela 
$100.00
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The Fermanis Family 
$100.00
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Dan H 
$100.00
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JET-A, LLC 
$100.00
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The Brothen Family 
$100.00
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Mike Naimark 
$100.00
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Ken James 
$100.00
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"In Memory of Anne Hall" 
$100.00
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The Reeve Family 
$100.00
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Stalt, Inc. 
$100.00
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TBA Global 
$100.00
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McG Consulting 
$100.00
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Edward Borrelli 
$100.00
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Lance 
$100.00
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allen notowitz 
$100.00
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Anonymous 
$75.00
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The Barton kids 
$50.00
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Heidi Gledhill 
$50.00
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Mike Burton 
$50.00
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The FRS Company 
$50.00
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Lisa Hinckley 
$50.00
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Support My Ride to Conquer Cancer http://www.cadenceforcancer.org

Welcome to my Personal Page! The Ride to Conquer Cancer benefiting Norton Cancer Institute is a 150 mile cycling journey, that I’m embarking on to fight cancer. It will be a challenge in a number of ways, but with my bike, my helmet, and your generosity, a real impact will be made!

Contribute to this history-making event with a donation. The funds you raise through The Ride to Conquer Cancer will generate the funds necessary to ensure that everyone in our community who needs cancer care will find the help they need at Norton Cancer Institute.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Why I ride and why for cancer.....

Well, as a committed athlete and health conscious person I am quite interested in exercise. I was an avid runner and never thought I would cycle, but recurring back pain forced me to stop. After over a year of not running and reading more and more about cycling as well as seeing the increase of road cyclists riding through my neighborhood streets I decided to try. Trying does not mean just get on a bike and go. For the most part it means that you purchase a bike, gear, etc and now you have some greater form of investment rather than just a desire. For me it clicked and I have not stopped. I feel free and am able to work through family and work matters, listen to music and receive awesome health benefits while doing so. I am thinking about my next ride right now. I am inspired by Lance Armstrong and as a member of the LIVESTRONG CHALLENGE and a committed FRS user I feel that I am contributing daily. My job at ImmuneRegen BioSciences, Inc. http://www.immuneregen.com) is to guide the development of certain drug candidates for various indications, diseases and or illnesses. Nothing feels better than knowing that one day my team and I can help save and or enhance one or many lives and their families lives as well. My wonderful children (Hannah, Kylie, Hallie and Aidan) mean the world to me and they will be the beneficiaries of enhanced treatment modalities should they or anyone in their generation ever require any. Plus, it is so incredible knowing and feeling how proud they are of their dad for doing whatever he can. Our company's current compound has stem cell activity lending to an enhancement of the challenged immune system potentially playing a role in the treatment of cancer outside of potentially treating adverse side effects caused by toxic therapy. Riding to raise funds for cancer and cancer research provides me with a more well rounded balance on how I am working to make a difference in the fight against cancer. I feel great about making this difference and know you will too! Please join me and make a contribution and help us move more swiftly at finding treatments and cures, because you never know where and when cancer will come in to our lives next.

what is cancer?

Cancer isn't just one disease. It is a large and complex family of malignancies that can affect virtually every organ in the body. Cancer is second only to heart disease as the leading cause of death in the United States. Over 1.2 million new cases are diagnosed every year, with half of them occurring in the lung, prostate, breast, colon and rectum. Cancer can strike at any age, although it is most common in people over 50.

Cancer begins in the body's cells, which are constantly dividing and multiplying to replace old, damaged cells. Sometimes, cells begin to divide unnecessarily, forming excess tissue known as a tumor. In most cases, tumors are benign, meaning that they are not cancerous. Benign tumors, although they may cause some health problems depending on their size and location, are not life-threatening.

However, if an abnormal cell begins to divide, it eventually forms a malignant, or cancerous tumor. Most malignant tumors grow quite rapidly, invading nearby organs and tissues. Cancerous cells can also travel through the bloodstream to other regions of the body. When cancer spreads from its original site, the process is known as metastasis.

The good news is that cancer death rates have been declining in recent years, especially among men, who generally experience higher rates than women. Increasing public awareness has resulted in more people getting regular cancer screenings, and practicing healthy lifestyles to reduce their risk.

Thank you for your support. You are aiding in the continuing decline of incidences so that one day we can possibly be free of any form of cancer and or the threat of it.

MKW

Cadence4Cancer

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I love training and working because it all means so much...
My Family, the riding for specific causes, my work in developing treatments for cancer and infectious disease is all so rewarding. Especially now!! The advancements we are making in cancer and ID for our drug candidate as a therapeutic and adjuvant are tremendous and hope that a large partner can assist us in making this available to those in need sooner rather than later. Our recent findings and successful studies in models of H1N1, H3N2, H5N1 and other areas of Influenza,etc is quite promising. Our exciting data from our previous influenza studies are particularly relevant to the current concerns about swine flu outbreaks around the world. ImmuneRegen's immunologist strongly believes our data is directly relevant to this mutated human/swine/avian recombination virus because we exploit mechanisms of inflammation relevant to all three viruses. The mechanisms through which Hompsera mediates the dramatic increased clearance of influenza virus, reduced systemic symptoms and lung inflammation and mortality with Homspera demonstrates a clear role as a therapy for the newly emerging swine flu pandemic, future avian influenza outbreaks/pandemic and seasonal human influenza.
As you know, my rides are for the purpose of raising cancer cancer awareness and research funds, but our work at ImmuneRegen goes far beyond this. There are so many great scientists and people that work on developing treatments for many life threatening ailments requiring support, funding, etc. I just wish the government would seek out these entities and people more readily and efficiently because at times like these we would be far more prepared. I will continue to work hard on this and will spread the word in DC too. Please contact your congressman and or senator to spread the word for us. We need government support so we can save your life....
Always have hope!!!

by Michael Wilhelm on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 @ 5:07 AM

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