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Speaker 1: Whether it's a five k or starting from Hopkinson, around

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Speaker 1: eight and a half thousand people are taking part in

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Speaker 1: the annual Jimmy Fun Walk to raise money for the

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Speaker 1: Dana Farber Cancer Institute. In an arrow when it's almost

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Speaker 1: impossible to not have cancer impact your life in some way,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Fund Assistant vice president Jess Abbott says events like

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Speaker 1: this bring people together and give them hope.

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Speaker 2: Oftentimes you feel like you are helpless to you know,

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Speaker 2: you're not a doctor. You can't cure cancer, but you

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Speaker 2: can walk, you can raise money, you can donate, and

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Speaker 2: you can help up that way.

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Speaker 1: This year's event is looking to raise around nine and

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Speaker 1: a half million dollars for the Jimmy Fund. Mark works

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Speaker 1: for Dana Farber and is volunteering for the fifth year.

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Speaker 1: He says that money goes a long way during a

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Speaker 1: time when cancer research funding is being cut.

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Speaker 3: It's huge because this is a much more you know,

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Speaker 3: sustable source of revenue so we can continue to do

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Speaker 3: research and you know, help patients. So yeah, it's really

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Speaker 3: really nice to have that, you know, that that buffer

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Speaker 3: absolutely right now

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Speaker 1: From the common Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio