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Relay for Life teams fight against cancer together
Annual American Cancer Society event raises funds for research and honors all affected by illness
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Stanley Stephens, an eight-year pleomorphic sarcoma cancer survivor, and Arlene Schroeder, a 19-year breast cancer survivor, release balloons along with many other cancer survivors during last year’s Relay for Life of Hall County at the University of North Georgia Gainesville campus in Oakwood. Almost 100 teams with more than 1,000 participants are registered for this year’s Relay. - photo by Erin O. Smith
In 2010, Sydney Nix walked in her first Relay for Life. Her cancer-stricken father was by her side. “We got to interact with people who had the same cancer as my dad, and they were telling us their stories and how they dealt with it,” she said.