Penn Pancreatic Cancer Research Center

Penn had a terrific showing at this year's Purplestride! Aside from being the Premier Sponsor for the event, our team was also the 2nd leading fundraiser in terms of donations! Check out the media coverage of the event including interviews with survivor Paris Johnson and nurse navigator Trish Gambino!

2023 has been a stellar year for A Love for Life.
We have been incredibly lucky to be surrounded by so many sponsors, donors, volunteers and our amazingly supportive community. Thanks to all of you, we have been able to donate $100,000 again this year to our dedicated team of researchers. We strive to improve outcomes for pancreatic cancer patients in honor of those we love and those we have lost and it brings us great joy to share our mission and success with you-
All best to you & your friends & family in 2024.

Want one of our AL4L Valentines?
Or have one sent to a friend- we are happy to
share the love!
Email address to [email protected]

https://socialfundraising.apps.upenn.edu/socialFundraising/jsp/fast.do?&fastStart=customTemplateByNameOrId&customApplicationNameOrId=aloveforlife

Kevin Edmonds and "A Love for Life" Fund at Penn Presbyterian Oncology

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Guru\'s in Bloom! An Indian Dinner benefitting Pancreatic Cancer research

Fantastic Indian Dinner Benefit by ALoveforLife! Join others in supporting pancreatic cancer research at Penn - just click on the "Donate" link to sign up.

Guru\'s in Bloom! An Indian Dinner benefitting Pancreatic Cancer research

Join us for PanCAN PurpleStride 2023 on Saturday, April 29, 2023, in 60 events across the country!

PurpleStride is the ultimate walk to end pancreatic cancer. Wherever you are, you can help create that sea of purple to honor those we lost, celebrate survivors and raise funds for essential research like the PanCAN Early Detection Initiative and free resources and support from PanCAN Patient Services.

We want to make PanCAN PurpleStride 2023 our biggest year yet and we need YOU to do that! The specific link to join Penn’s team:
https://secure.pancan.org/site/TR/PurpleStride/PurpleStride?team_id=42167&pg=team&fr_id=2636

Everyone who registers and raises:

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$50 or more will receive an official PanCAN PurpleStride 2023 T-shirt

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$1,000 or more will become a member of our PanCAN PurpleStride Grand Club and receive exclusive Grand Club gear!

Want to learn more?

Go to the Event Details page.
Check our FAQ page.
Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to get fundraising ideas, inspirational stories and more.
Connect with other PanCAN supporters in your area by joining the Philadelphia Affiliate Facebook Group.
Still have questions? Contact us!
A world where all patients with pancreatic cancer thrive starts with YOU! Your participation and fundraising keep PanCAN’s vital programs running so patients and their families don’t have to navigate this journey on their own. Thank you!

https://secure.pancan.org/site/TR/PurpleStride/PurpleStride?pg=entry&fr_id=2636

Let's take steps together at PurpleStride! PurpleStride is the ultimate event to end pancreatic cancer. Register for free and start fundraising today!

Join us for PanCAN PurpleStride 2023 on Saturday, April 29, 2023, in 60 events across the country!

PurpleStride is the ultimate walk to end pancreatic cancer. Wherever you are, you can help create that sea of purple to honor those we lost, celebrate survivors and raise funds for essential research like the PanCAN Early Detection Initiative and free resources and support from PanCAN Patient Services.

We want to make PanCAN PurpleStride 2023 our biggest year yet and we need YOU to do that! The specific link to join Penn’s team:
https://secure.pancan.org/site/TR/PurpleStride/PurpleStride?team_id=42167&pg=team&fr_id=2636

Everyone who registers and raises:

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$50 or more will receive an official PanCAN PurpleStride 2023 T-shirt

Image
$1,000 or more will become a member of our PanCAN PurpleStride Grand Club and receive exclusive Grand Club gear!

Want to learn more?

Go to the Event Details page.
Check our FAQ page.
Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to get fundraising ideas, inspirational stories and more.
Connect with other PanCAN supporters in your area by joining the Philadelphia Affiliate Facebook Group.
Still have questions? Contact us!
A world where all patients with pancreatic cancer thrive starts with YOU! Your participation and fundraising keep PanCAN’s vital programs running so patients and their families don’t have to navigate this journey on their own. Thank you!

https://secure.pancan.org/site/TR/PurpleStride/PurpleStride?pg=entry&fr_id=2636

PurpleStride Philadelphia 2023 with Premier Sponsor Penn Medicine - Pancreatic Cancer Action Network PurpleStride is a year-round national movement that funds life-changing programs and services for pancreatic cancer patients. Your participation and fundraising make it all possible.

Purplestride Philadelphia 2023 is happening! Please join in the effort to put an end to pancreas cancer by joining our team and walking with us!

Let's take steps together at PurpleStride! PurpleStride is the ultimate event to end pancreatic cancer. Register for free and start fundraising today!

It's time! Purplestride 2023. Join our team and walk or run to end pancreas cancer! Penn Pancreatic Cancer Research Center

Let's take steps together at PurpleStride! PurpleStride is the ultimate event to end pancreatic cancer. Register for free and start fundraising today!

We are so grateful to A Love for Life. Thank you for all you do to support pancreatic cancer research. We are making progress!

is celebrating this so if you want to donate any amount to pancreatic cancer research at checkout, Lenox will match up to $10000. Here’s a chance for your donation to go 2x as far. Just head to our website/ all links are there ( for shopping day this Friday/ party next Thursday 12/8 cookie partnership and this link…. It’s all there on www.aloveforlife.us homepage)

http://givingpages.upenn.edu/Oktoberfest

It's The Best of Times/ The Wurst of Times.
Friday, October 7th at 5pm
RAIN DATE: Sunday, October 9th at 5pm

101 Liberty Street
Newtown PA 18940

Want to join us? Just donate $60 or more per ticket on this Penn Giving Page- 100% will go to our dedicated researchers and is 100% tax deductible.

Anyone who as ever joined us at Randy & Nancy's beautiful Newtown Borough property knows that it is the most FUN fundraiser of the year. We are hoping to return to our IN-PERSON Oktoberfest- we will make the decision a week or two before the date. If our Penn researchers feel it is safer to do our deliver model due to any upticks in cases we will follow their lead!

Lederhosen and Dirndls and checked shirts are encouraged but definitely not required.

Your donation will help us inch closer to a cure.
If you cannot attend our party but still want to support our efforts, just donate on this page or on our website www.aloveforlife.us.

Every dollar donated will help improve the odds for cancer patients.

Bier (Sponsor will be added when confirmed!)
Di Bruno Bros Bratwurst & Cheese
Rolls
Mustard
Fresh Horseradish
Sourdough Bread
Sauerkraut
Kartoffelsalat
Green salad
Soft Pretzels
Linzer Augen
Newtown Hardware House cookies
We will add our 2022 sponsors as we confirm them!

100% of your donation funds pancreatic cancer research at Penn

Questions? [email protected]

A Love for Life
We are dedicated to funding pancreatic cancer research at Penn and improving outcomes for those who are facing this challenge now. Learn more about our organization at www.aloveforlife.us

There are limited tickets available so don't delay- we always sell out!

SPECIAL THANKS TO WILLIAM MIGNUCCI AND HIS TEAM AT DI BRUNO BROS.
Their generosity allowed us to raise over $22,000 last year.

A Love for Life Oktoberfest Best of Times/Wurst of Times!

The PCRC is delighted to announce that “A Love For Life,” the Newtown-based nonprofit founded by Christine Edmonds to raise money for pancreatic cancer research at the Abramson Cancer Center, has raised one million dollars for the cause over the past 10 years. The million dollar mark was reached on the same day that Kevin Edmonds, Christine’s beloved husband, also a father and friend to many, passed away from pancreatic cancer.

A Love for Life (AL4L) has been a steadfast supporter of pancreatic cancer research over the past decade, and we are extremely grateful for their support and the hard work it took to reach this amazing milestone. We are privileged to be able to share in celebrating Kevin Edmond’s memory in this way.

AL4L is not slowing down in its efforts to benefit pancreatic cancer research. An upcoming A Love For Life Fundraiser is planned as a Spring Benefit Party at Chambers 19 Bistro & Bar in downtown Doylestown. The party includes music and a silent auction, and is much anticipated for its cache of vacation homes, event tickets, and art by celebrated Bucks County artists.

For more information on A Love for Life, or to make a donation, visit http://aloveforlife.us/
Find us on Facebook/Instagram: A Love for Life/ @ aloveforlife_

A Love for Life A Love for Life is dedicated to raising funds for pancreatic cancer research.

Please join the Penn Pancreatic Cancer Research Center’s team on April 30, 2022.
This year Penn will be one of the premier sponsors supporting the Purple Stride Event.
This is a yearly fund raiser that supports the efforts of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
Location: Memorial Hall/Please Touch Museum



TEAM PAGE URL:

Let's take steps together at PurpleStride! PurpleStride is the ultimate event to end pancreatic cancer. Register for free and start fundraising today!

https://socialfundraising.apps.upenn.edu/socialFundraising/jsp/fast.do?&fastStart=customTemplateByNameOrId&customApplicationNameOrId=Oktoberfest

It's The Best of Times/ The Wurst of Times.
Friday, October 7th at 5pm
RAIN DATE: Sunday, October 9th at 5pm

101 Liberty Street
Newtown PA 18940

Want to join us? Just donate $60 or more per ticket on this Penn Giving Page- 100% will go to our dedicated researchers and is 100% tax deductible.

Anyone who as ever joined us at Randy & Nancy's beautiful Newtown Borough property knows that it is the most FUN fundraiser of the year. We are hoping to return to our IN-PERSON Oktoberfest- we will make the decision a week or two before the date. If our Penn researchers feel it is safer to do our deliver model due to any upticks in cases we will follow their lead!

Lederhosen and Dirndls and checked shirts are encouraged but definitely not required.

Your donation will help us inch closer to a cure.
If you cannot attend our party but still want to support our efforts, just donate on this page or on our website www.aloveforlife.us.

Every dollar donated will help improve the odds for cancer patients.

Bier (Sponsor will be added when confirmed!)
Di Bruno Bros Bratwurst & Cheese
Rolls
Mustard
Fresh Horseradish
Sourdough Bread
Sauerkraut
Kartoffelsalat
Green salad
Soft Pretzels
Linzer Augen
Newtown Hardware House cookies
We will add our 2022 sponsors as we confirm them!

100% of your donation funds pancreatic cancer research at Penn

Questions? [email protected]

A Love for Life
We are dedicated to funding pancreatic cancer research at Penn and improving outcomes for those who are facing this challenge now. Learn more about our organization at www.aloveforlife.us

There are limited tickets available so don't delay- we always sell out!

SPECIAL THANKS TO WILLIAM MIGNUCCI AND HIS TEAM AT DI BRUNO BROS.
Their generosity allowed us to raise over $22,000 last year.

A Love for Life Oktoberfest Best of Times/Wurst of Times!

As we begin preparing for online, here's a throwback to last year's PCRC team!

For information on participating or donating to Purple Stride: https://tinyurl.com/y3p3tall

We hope to see you join the PCRC Team!

The Penn Pancreatic Cancer Care Symposium has been cancelled. For more information please follow this link: https://upenn.cloud-cme.com/default.aspx?P=5&EID=65135

An update on how the PCRC works together to fight pancreatic cancer!

Penn is fighting pancreatic cancer | Penn Today Researchers within the Penn Pancreatic Research Center and beyond continue to seek innovative ways to treat and detect this deadly disease—and are making promising progress.

"If we take it one day at a time, with a positive attitude, anything is possible" - A message of hope from Alex Trebek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8c_mAxW7QI

A One-Year Update From Alex | JEOPARDY! A one-year update from Alex. Subscribe to Jeopardy!'s official YouTube channel for more: http://bit.ly/JSubscribe_YT JEOPARDY! ON SOCIAL: Like JEOPARDY! on F...

The PCRC will be hosting a one-day symposium discussing advances in research and clinical care for patients with pancreatic malignancy, pancreatic cysts, and pancreatitis on Friday, April 24th, 2020. Please join us! Registration and more information: https://upenn.cloud-cme.com/default.aspx?P=5&EID=65135

US Cancer death rates have dropped to the lowest levels ever in a single year, and pancreatic cancer's 5-year survival rate reaches all time high at 10% : https://www.pancan.org/news/pancreatic-cancer-survival-rate-reaches-10/

Pancreatic Cancer Survival Rate Reaches 10% for First Time – Pancreatic Cancer Action Network The five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer has reached double digits, according to the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts & Figures 2020. Find out what else the report says.

Pancreatic cancer treatments show promise in studies, Penn reports

PCRC Researchers Drs. Kim Reiss-Binder and Mark O'Hara are featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer for leading studies that show exciting potential in combating Pancreatic Cancer. Read the article here: https://www.philly.com/health/pancreatic-cancer-treatment-chemotherapy-study-penn-20190402.html

philly.com Pancreatic cancer has defied efforts to develop an effective targeted treatment. That could finally be changing.

Player: Mark H O'Hara - Predictive Biomarkers for Immunotherapy - 2019 Annual Meeting

News Flash from AACR: PCRC Researcher Mark O’Hara, M.D. presents exciting Phase 1 data regarding treatment of metastatic pancreatic cancer with combination immunotherapy (Gemcitabine, nab-paclitaxel, CD40 agonist, PD-1 antagonist). Click below to watch the webcast:

https://webcast.aacr.org/console/player/43388?mediaType=slideVideo&&crd_fl=0&ssmsrq=1554138163299&ctms=5000&csmsrq=5068

webcast.aacr.org In order to view the webcast, you must have a currently supported HTML5 compliant web browser with standards-based media playback support on supported versions of the Windows and Macintosh operating systems.

PCRC Team at the PurpleStride event, November 4, 2017

Brown neuroscientists earn fellowships to study biomedical technologies

PCRC Director, Dr. Ben Z. Stanger, will be collaborating with Dr. Gilad Barnea at Brown University, on an innovative project to apply Dr. Barnea's neural circuit tracing technology toward cancer research, via a fellowship from the Pew Charitable trusts. Read more here: https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/09/neurogrants

news.brown.edu

A Pill Might Control Pancreatic Cancer, Even If It Doesn't Cure It

In a recent article in Forbes magazine (http://tinyurl.com/ForbesPanCan), Penn Oncologist and PCRC Clinical Researcher Dr. Kim Reiss Binder discusses her trial using PARP inhibitors (UPCC 05217) to increase the duration of remission in patients with pancreatic cancer.

forbes.com Rubraca Keeps Many Ovarian Cancers In Check. Could It Work As Maintenance Treatment In Pancreatic Cancer?

Breakthrough Bike Challenge 2017

The PCRC has joined the Breakthrough Bike Challenge, Sunday, September 17, 2017 at the Daniel Boone Homestead in Birdsboro, PA. All donations made by 11:59 pm tonight will be matched by the organization, and 100% will go to pancreatic cancer, so we need your support! Our group is the Pancreatic Pedallers, and here is our direct webpage:

http://www.breakthroughbikechallenge.org/goto/PancreaticPedallers.

Thank you in advance!

breakthroughbikechallenge.org A Breakthrough Bike Challenge Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Event

Blood test holds promise for earlier pancreatic cancer detection

Recently, a team led by PCRC-member Ken Zaret, PhD – in collaboration with Gloria Petersen, PhD at the Mayo Clinic – used an innovative approach to identify markers in the blood that can accurately identify patients with pancreatic cancer. What makes this development so exciting is that in a retrospective cohort (an examination of archived blood samples), it was able to distinguish patients with early stage cancer – stage I or II – when survival rates following surgery are much better. Read more here: http://tinyurl.com/PanCanBlood.

cbsnews.com Pancreatic cancer is usually discovered late and survival is poor, but researchers hope an experimental blood test could help change that

Tempus Announces Collaboration with Abramson Cancer Center at Penn to Increase the Effectiveness of Immunotherapy Treatment

Abramson Cancer Center enters into a partnership with Tempus Corporation to support tumor sequencing efforts:

finance.yahoo.com CHICAGO, Nov. 30, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Tempus, a technology company focused on supporting physicians delivering customized cancer care, and Penn's Abramson Cancer Center have partnered to better determine which patients will have a positive response to immunotherapy treatment based on next generatio...

Dr. Ben Stanger, Scientific Director of the PCRC, received the 2016 Scientific Award from the Philadelphia area American Cancer Society in November 2016 for his ground breaking work toward understanding the mechanism of metastasis in pancreatic cancer.

Physicians and Physicists Join Forces to Fight Pancreatic Cancer

“Dr. Jeffrey A. Drebin, Chair of Penn’s Surgery Department and PCRC member, is part of a new Dream Team of Physicians and Scientists supported by Stand up to Cancer to find novel strategies to fight pancreatic cancer.”

wsj.com By bringing together experts from different fields, scientists seek answers to complex medical problems.

2016 Lehigh Valley Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk - Home

“The PCRC will be participating in two upcoming fundraising events benefitting pancreatic cancer research:

The Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Research Walkon Sunday, September 25th at the Lehigh Valley Parkway, Allentown, PA
http://2016lehighvalleywalk.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=1155079

The PurpleStride on Saturday, November 5th at Memorial Hall, Philadelphia, PA.
http://support.pancan.org/site/TR/PurpleStride/PurpleStride?fr_id=1141&pg=entry

Hope you can join us!

2016lehighvalleywalk.kintera.org