8th Annual Wiffle For Cancer Set for June 10

The 8^th annual Wiffle for Cancer tournament benefitting the Nick Currey Fund for Ewing sarcoma research will be held on Sunday, June 10 at noon. The event will take place at , regardless of weather.

The tournament is held in memory of Ridgewood native Nick Currey. Currey was ready to head off to college when he felt a pain in his side. An x-ray later and it was discovered he had Ewing sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that rests in bone or soft tissue.

To date, the Nick Currey Fund has raised over $500,000. With that money, the Currey family has been able to sponsor a statistician to analyze twenty years worth of data comparing tissue samples and clinical outcomes, Ralph Currey said. They’ve helped obtain more than 100 specimens of infected tissues for a study examining Gene p53, known to be deleted in Ewing’s sarcoma.

Organizers are especially hopeful that a study they are funding at Georgetown University will be able to find the “magic bullet” cure for the disease, Nick's father, Ralph, told Patch in an interview last summer.

Register online at www.wiffleforcancer.org by June 1. The fee is $50 per team. Sponsorship opportunities are also available. For more information visit the website or contact Ralph Currey at wiffleforcancer@gmail.com.