HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — The National Ovarian Cancer Coalition Great Lakes chapter held its biggest fundraiser of the year on Sunday.
This year’s Together in Teal walk raised over $120,000 for people suffering from the disease and research for treatment.
This is the 24th year of the walk, and hundreds of people came together, united in their goal to end ovarian cancer.
Jeff Mazur wears his mother’s legacy on his chest with a pin.
“She was at the first NOCC walk in Pittsburgh, which was in 2001,” he said. “She passed away a week after the second one.”
His family created Agnes’s Angels in her memory.
“It’s made myself and all of our family focused on anything we can do to help families dealing with the same thing,” Mazur said.
So many have heard or know someone who has listened to those difficult words, “You have ovarian cancer.”
“While those four words are devastating, they also have the power to unite us like here today,” Celina Pompeani Matheson, the event emcee and Pittsburgh Today Live Reporter said.