ST. PETERSBURG, FL, USA – The WTA and WTA Charities are launching the third annual ACEing Most cancers marketing campaign to assist girls’s well being and wellness. The marketing campaign will run by way of the top of the 12 months and all proceeds raised might be donated to the battle towards girls’s cancers.
The ACEing Most cancers initiative started in 2019 and the primary analysis grant was devoted in reminiscence of former WTA participant Elena Baltacha, who misplaced her battle to liver most cancers in 2014 on the age of 30.
The 2021-22 marketing campaign might be devoted to the reminiscence of WTA Legend and Corridor of Famer Jana Novotna, who died from cervical most cancers in 2017 on the age of 49 and would have celebrated her 53rd birthday on October 2 only a few days in the past.
All through October, WTA athletes together with Carla Suárez Navarro, a former High 10 participant who not too long ago underwent remedy for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, and Barbora Krejcikova, who was coached and mentored by Jana Novotna, will assist ACEing Most cancers by sharing private tales.
Moreover, a number of different WTA gamers have joined the ACEing Most cancers marketing campaign giving their cause for becoming a member of the battle towards girls’s cancers. Gamers and officers can even be sporting pink masks with WTA Charities and ACEing Most cancers messaging through the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.
“So many in our WTA household of gamers, tournaments, companions, and pals have been personally impacted by most cancers,” mentioned Ann Austin, WTA Charities Administrator. “Supporting the groundbreaking analysis of the American Most cancers Society by way of the ACEing Most cancers marketing campaign is our means of honoring the legacy of the numerous WTA relations who’ve been impacted by this horrible illness.”
With the cash raised in 2019 and 2020, ACEing Most cancers and Most cancers Analysis Racquet funded a analysis mission at Duke College Medical Middle, by way of the American Most cancers Society that examines the way to deal with dormant tumor cells in breast most cancers survivors.
In line with the analysis proposal, the objective of the mission is that the “findings will straight result in higher remedy methods that use the immune system to seek out and kill any remaining dormant tumor cells, leading to longer lives for breast most cancers survivors.”
The WTA will choose this 12 months’s analysis grant recipient following the conclusion of the fundraising marketing campaign on the finish of the 12 months.
To study extra concerning the ACEing Most cancers initiative together with the way to make a donation, go to wtatennis.com/aceingcancer.
