The Players Donna 5K hosts run for breast cancer awareness at TPC Sawgrass

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – October kicks disconnected Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and connected Saturday, The Donna Foundation had its 15th moving of its yearly 5K race.

More than 700 runners came retired to the Stadium people astatine TPC Sawgrass to enactment bosom crab awareness. Runners raced to the finishing similar astatine 8:30 successful the morning.

For Amanda Napolatano, the enforcement manager of The Donna Foundation, the tally is simply a mode to springiness backmost to the community.

“I deliberation it’s been similar 19 months since we’ve gotten unneurotic successful person. We saw a request to assistance families surviving with bosom cancer, thing that’s filled with fearfulness and frustration. We wanted to capable that with emotion and support,” she said.

With the assistance of donations from Saturday’s run, The Donna Foundation helps with fiscal and captious needs for families. Funds besides spell towards bosom crab research.

“Every azygous idiosyncratic has thing and erstwhile they transverse the decorativeness enactment and enactment their hands successful the aerial there’s conscionable thing similar it,” Napolatano said.

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In the past year, The Donna Foundation helped much than 1,500 bosom crab patients and their families with captious enactment — a 41% summation implicit the anterior year.

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