MoBay run for breast cancer

Family members of the late Joan Clarke, who lost her battle with breast cancer 16 years ago, turned out at the Kiwanis Club Breast Cancer 5K Walk/Run in Montego Bay to walk in memory of their beloved relative.

Clarke's sister, Marie Ricketts-Scott, said the family has established a foundation in her memory.

"The Joan Angela Clarke Foundation was established to celebrate our sister's life, who past on the 20th of October, 2002, to breast cancer. It has been a painful experience. The thing that's most detrimental about breast cancer is that it tears families apart ... . That is one of the reasons why we support the Kiwanis Breast Cancer Walk/Run on an annual basis," Ricketts-Scott said.

"The aim of the foundation is to help families going through the challenges of breast cancer. We are providing tuition for one needy child whose parent has been diagnosed with the disease," she added.

Cancer survivor Pat Wright, who was honoured by the Kiwanis Club, said she is happy to see the support being give to the fight against breast cancer.

"I'm one of those people who wants to see cancer get the same treatment as breast cancer does. To me, the whole pink should be for cancer. I have had so many different cancers, bone once, colon twice and breast twice, and I feel bad that this is just for breast cancer. What happen to all the other cancers that people get daily?" said Wright.

She is the author of The Wright Life, a book in which she shares how she managed to survive multiple cancers.

"I've been doing it from like me third cancer came. I'm not an author, so it was very difficult to do, but I pushed forward. It's finished, and it's doing very well. A lot of people tell me when they take it up they can't put it down, so I'm happy," she added.