Sudbury Brain Tumour Walk at Collège Boréal

This year's Sudbury Brain Tumour Walk will have a special significance for Christy Tario.

Her infant son was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour last year and it was removed through an invasive surgery.

In addition to her son's diagnosis, Tario has two other connections to brain cancer: her husband's cousin died four months after a brain tumour diagnosis, and a close friend died in 2011 from aggressive brain cancer.

“We need to get the awareness out there,” Tario said in a release. “Before any of this, I had no clue about the disease and just how many different types of brain tumour there are.”

The walk will take place on Saturday, Sept. 20, and will help raise funds for the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada to conduct potentially life-saving research.

“We need to see more research on the disease, increase understanding about a brain tumour’s impact, and let people know that non-malignant tumours, like my son’s, are important too,” Tario said.

Registration for the walk, which takes place at Collège Boréal, will start at 9 a.m. and the event will kick off at 10 a.m.

For more information visit www.BrainTumourWalk.ca.