KEEP PUNCHING
Keep Punching is a foundation that supports patients, health-care providers, and researchers in their fight to prevent and eradicate brain cancer.
LET'S KNOCK BRAIN CANCER OUT FOR THE COUNT!
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Why do we Keep PunchingEver since he was a little boy, Daron Fisher motivated himself in hard times with the words “keep punching.” He learned the expression from Sylvester Stallone, who used it to autograph a media kit for Daron following the second Rocky movie. In 2010, when Daron began the hardest challenge of his life following his diagnosis with brain cancer, Stallone’s words held special meaning to him. For three years, he kept punching, working not only to stay healthy, but also to help find a cure for the disease.
During 2013, the last year of his battle with a glioblastoma, Daron, and his wife Beth started the non-profit organization Keep Punching in their Pikesville, Maryland home. Beth and Daron struggled with the knowledge that while researchers continue to speculate about promising treatments for brain cancer, few receive the necessary funding to determine the treatments’ efficacy. |
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FROM THE TOWSON PATCH: KEEP PUNCHING RAISES $27,000 FOR BRAIN CANCER RESEARCH AND PATIENT SUPPORT AT THIRD ANNUAL 5K, 1-MILE RUN AND KIDS FUN RACES - EVENT RECAP
“Keep Punching, Inc., a Baltimore-based 501c(3) non-profit organization that strives to support patients, healthcare providers and researchers in their fight to prevent and eradicate brain cancer, raised $27,000 at its Third Annual 5K, One-Mile Run and Kids Fun Races, held on Saturday, May 22, at Goucher College. The organization immediately donated $25,000 of the raised funds to Columbia University Medical Center in New York in a check presentation ceremony following the races.
Keep Punching hosts additional fundraising events each year, including an annual New Year’s Eve plunge into the Atlantic Ocean in Ocean City, Md. For more information about all Keep Punching events, please visit keeppunching.org/events.” |