Wellness Wednesday — Nebraska to hold first LYMPHOMAthon

The Lymphoma Research Foundation will host the first Nebraska LYMPHOMAthon 5K walk on Saturday, April 24, at Mahoney State Park.

Registration and check-in begin at 9 a.m. at the park pavilion. The walk starts at 10 a.m.

This year, the foundation will hold events in 24 cities to raise funds for lymphoma research and education. The LYMPHOMAthon is a fun-filled, non-competitive event that offers survivors, family, friends, community and corporate teams the chance to walk in honor of those whose lives have been touched by lymphoma.

Event sponsors Sponsors include: Union Pacific; Cassling Diagnostic Imaging, Inc.; Biogen Idec; Millenium; UNMC; The Nebraska Medical Center; UNMC Physicians; and WOWT TV Channel 6.

Lymphoma, a type of cancer that involves the lymph nodes, falls into two broad categories: Hodgkin’s lymphoma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The incidence of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in Nebraska is higher than the national average. About 450 new cases of lymphoma are diagnosed in Nebraskans each year.

Visit www.lymphomathon.org to start a team, join a team or sign up as an individual.

For more information, contact Bettina Frappier at (402) 559-6268, bfrappie@unmc.edu or nebraska@lymphoma.org.