Walk on National Mall in November to Benefit Lung Cancer Research

sam wrote an intriguing post today on

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A young Bethesda family is taking their personal battle with lung cancer to the National Mall in November, hosting a fundraising walk to benefit lung cancer research.
Breathe Deep DC — a 5k walk on the National Mall on November 15th — was conceived by Jerry Sorkin, a Bethesda father of two, who was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer two years ago. A non-smoker, Sorkin was treated for Hodgkin’s disease, another type of cancer, in high school and again in college. The radiation that saved his life in the early 1980s is the likely cause of his lung cancer.

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