Downtown Miami

Thousands take to streets for Miami’s Susan G. Komen breast cancer research walk/run

Daniel Noya, 18, carries his mom Noga Nietzen across the finish line during the Susan G. Komen More Than Pink Walk in downtown Miami on Saturday, October 16, 2021. The event aims to raise awareness and money for breast cancer research. Nietzen, who works at Baptist Hospital, is a 1-year breast cancer survivor.
Daniel Noya, 18, carries his mom Noga Nietzen across the finish line during the Susan G. Komen More Than Pink Walk in downtown Miami on Saturday, October 16, 2021. The event aims to raise awareness and money for breast cancer research. Nietzen, who works at Baptist Hospital, is a 1-year breast cancer survivor. MATIAS J. OCNER mocner@miamiherald.com

A mass of thousands of breast cancer survivors, their friends and loved ones marched up Biscayne Boulevard through Maurice A. Ferre Park and back down Biscayne Saturday in this year’s Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure — More Than Pink Walk to raise money for research in treating breast cancer.

This year’s annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month event comes 12 months after last October’s walk was turned into a virtual event by the COVID-19 pandemic and 12 days after Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his wife, Casey DeSantis, had been diagnosed as having breast cancer.

Miami police expected 4,000 people Saturday.

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Corinne Blanchard, who has stage 3 breast cancer and has completed her 11th chemotherapy treatment, cheers as she attends the opening ceremony of the Susan G. Komen More Than Pink Walk at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami on Saturday, October 16, 2021. The event aims to raise awareness and money for breast cancer research.
Corinne Blanchard, who has stage 3 breast cancer and has completed her 11th chemotherapy treatment, cheers as she attends the opening ceremony of the Susan G. Komen More Than Pink Walk at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami on Saturday, October 16, 2021. The event aims to raise awareness and money for breast cancer research. MATIAS J. OCNER mocner@miamiherald.com
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