BENSALEM, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — Hundreds made their way to Parx Casino in Bensalem Sunday morning for the Susan G. Komen "More Than Pink" walk, to raise awareness and money for the fight against breast cancer.
Nancy Moskoff was one of the many who took part in the Mother's Day event.
"I used to walk years and years ago, and I just thought we were doing it support my friend's mom," she said. "Then eventually, I got diagnosed, and I started volunteering. It just became a community and a family."
Moskoff said over the years, the walk has become a more personal endeavor.
"[I was] diagnosed first time at 40, in 2006," she told KYW Newsradio, "and then again six years later."
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The wind, rain and mud, Moskoff said, could do very little to hold her back. "As hard as this is to walk in the rain, it's not as hard as chemo," she expressed.
"Anything we have to do here today — it might be a little uncomfortable, it might be a little wet, it might be a little cold — but it's not as hard this diagnosis you have cancer."
The walk allowed participants to do one, two or three laps around the casino's mile-long horse track.
Sandra Dowling said the rain and cold were no match for her willpower, when it comes to walking for this cause.
"It means a lot to the females in my family, and myself. My mother passed away with cancer," she said.
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Dowling said the walk gives her a chance to think about the struggles of other survivors, those who died and the help they can provide for others.
"I have daughters too, and I pray they do not have that problem with cancer," Dowling shared, "but I'm out here to support all women from all walks of life."
Interventional radiology nurse Maria Mackins is a nurse in interventional radiology joined the walk for her first time this year.
"When you see them and you see where they start at and where they can finish it really gives you a good feel," she said, "that you're giving back to the community, you’re giving back to them and you're being supportive of them."
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