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Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to Lisa Malar with the

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Speaker 1: eighteenth annual Heroes of Hope Race for Brain Tumor Research.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Lisa, Good morning. How are you doing good?

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Speaker 1: So you know, I found out about your little event

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Speaker 1: at a Dodgers game of all things.

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Speaker 2: Ronda is one of your participants.

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Speaker 1: She sits next to me at the Dodger Games and

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Speaker 1: she survived a brain tumor. And you know, when you

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Speaker 1: survive something like that, you tend to want to do

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Speaker 1: something to help or bring awareness or raise money for

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Speaker 1: something that affected you so profoundly. And so she shared

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Speaker 1: that with me, and I said, my gosh, let's share

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Speaker 1: that with wake up call listeners. So tell us about

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Speaker 1: what you're doing at Dackweiler on Sunday, November sixteenth.

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Speaker 3: Sure, and congrats to the Dodger I know, right back

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Speaker 3: to back winners. Yeah. So on November sixteenth, at eight am,

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Speaker 3: we will be holding our five K, ten K and

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Speaker 3: Kids Fun Run is a race for brain tumor research

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Speaker 3: and it's a wonderful event that is uh supporting local

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Speaker 3: researchers at UCLA Theater Steinit and children's Hostole Los Angeles

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Speaker 3: right here in the area. And it's at the beach.

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Speaker 3: It's a beautiful day of hope and remembrance.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and you said it's a run aura walk, Yeah

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Speaker 1: you can walk, sure, thank you on the walk.

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Speaker 2: I would definitely be walking. And you said that name.

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Speaker 2: The money goes to brain tumor research.

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Speaker 1: So what I mean, like, what have they made any

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Speaker 1: breakthroughs or is the I know you guys have raised

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Speaker 1: a ton of money in the last eighteen years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we have more almost at the two million

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Speaker 3: dollar mark, which is amazing, and we're funding low toxicity research,

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Speaker 3: things like immune therapies and gene therapies. So that's like

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Speaker 3: kind of the wave of the future in cancer research.

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Speaker 3: They're still doing chemotherapies of radiation, but with little success

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Speaker 3: in brain tumors, and now they're fighting. They're using our

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Speaker 3: own bodies immune systems to recognize cancer cells and fight them.

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Speaker 3: And so a lot of the doctors have explained to

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Speaker 3: me that cancer cells are very tricky. They're kind of

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Speaker 3: like spies. They're kind of like double agents. They kind

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Speaker 3: of trick your immune system into thinking they're good cells,

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Speaker 3: but they're really bad cells. And so they're training these

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Speaker 3: I guess they're called T cells, but they're training them

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Speaker 3: to basically fight off these bad cells, to recognize them

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Speaker 3: and fight them. So they are making progress, not fast enough,

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Speaker 3: of course, but it is happening, and it only happens

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Speaker 3: with research and with federal funding so low for rare

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Speaker 3: types of cancers, which it's debatable the braintorers are rare,

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Speaker 3: but they technically are considered rare. Any private funding, like

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Speaker 3: from races like ours or events like ours or smaller

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Speaker 3: foundations are very helpful.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I would argue about the rarity of them too.

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Speaker 1: My grandfather died from a brain tumor, and so did

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Speaker 1: my aunt. So, Lisa, why did you get involved in

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Speaker 1: this organization?

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Speaker 3: I lost my brother to brain cancer twenty four years

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Speaker 3: ago now, he died in two thousand and one, who

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Speaker 3: is twenty nine years old and assistant district attorney, three children,

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Speaker 3: and it was probably the most traumatic and horrible thing

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Speaker 3: our family ever went through to watch somebody so strong

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Speaker 3: and young just be taken down by brain tumor. And

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Speaker 3: before he died, he just said, promise me, you will

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Speaker 3: never stop fighting until we find a cure. And so

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Speaker 3: I've been honoring that promise to him for the past

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Speaker 3: twenty four years.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's beautiful, Lisa.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about how because we're not just donating,

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Speaker 1: we're also showing support. Like you said, never give up

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Speaker 1: the fight and show support for the people who are

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Speaker 1: fighting it or or who have beat their battle with it.

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Speaker 2: How do we get involved?

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Speaker 3: Well, first and foremost, go to ww dot Superheroes of

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Speaker 3: Hoope dot org and that will take you to our website.

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Speaker 3: You can register to run our walk. You can choose

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Speaker 3: five k or the ten k or even the kids

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Speaker 3: Fun Run. You could also be a virtual runner if

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Speaker 3: you can't attend physically, and you can start a team.

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Speaker 3: It's not too late. You can grab a bunch of

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Speaker 3: people at your company and come on out and run together.

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Speaker 3: We have a wonderful prize for the top the fastest

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Speaker 3: team this year. To the top five runners of the

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Speaker 3: team will we have there times will be averaged together

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Speaker 3: and the fastest team's going to get a great prize.

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Speaker 3: And so and even if you can't run or walk

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Speaker 3: or just volunteer, just come out and help us. And

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Speaker 3: you can register to volunteer on the website as well.

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Speaker 3: And obviously if you can't do any of that, make

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Speaker 3: a donation because that ultimately helps fund research.

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Speaker 2: Okay, great, and what's the website again? One more time?

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Speaker 3: Www dot how many w don't know? Superheroes of Hope

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Speaker 3: dot org.

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Speaker 2: Super Heroes of Hope.

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Speaker 1: And that's Sunday, November sixteenth, at Darkwyler State Beach, Lisa Malura.

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Speaker 2: I hope you raise a ton of money.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Got it.

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Speaker 1: What a great way to go out and get some exercise,

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Speaker 1: have some fun, and raise money for a good cause.

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Speaker 2: I like that a lot