Stoughton's Nicole Jacobs Running Boston Marathon for Cancer Research

The following is adapted from a press release from the Dana-Farber:

On April 15, Nicole Jacobs from Stoughton will be running in the 117th Boston Marathon to help conquer cancer as a member of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team. 

Jacobs, along with more than 550 Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge teammates from across the United States and around the world, will run Massachusetts’ historic marathon route from Hopkinton to Boston with a goal to raise $4.6 million for cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

"My teammates and I have been training with thousands of special people in our hearts," Jacobs writes on her personal fundraising page.

"I am partnered with a pediatric patient who is diagnosed with cancer...All 26.2 miles are for my partner and others who receive cancer treatment at Dana Farber Cancer Institute - one of the leading centers in the world. On race day, thoughts of those special people will carry us to the finish line when the going gets tough," she continued.

One-hundred-percent of the funds raised benefit Dana-Farber’s Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research, which supports cornerstone science research in its earliest stages, providing researchers with critical resources to test their leading-edge ideas. Findings from Barr program research can provide novel clinical insights as well as the results necessary to seek additional federal funding.

Since its inception in 1990, the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge has raised more than $56 million for the Barr Program. Dana-Farber Trustees J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver founded the Barr Program in 1987 to honor Mrs. Weaver’s mother, Claudia Adams Barr, who lost her battle with cancer in 1957.

Click here to read more about the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team. 

For more information, or to support a runner, visit RunDanaFarber.org.