Joe DeLucia

I believe in using my talents to challenge myself while making a positive difference for others.

Hey all! I have decided to pull a Favre and come out of marathon retirement! I am doing this because I am inspired by the activities of Endure to Cure and felt compelled to assist them in their charitable endeavors plus: I love a good challenge! I will be helping to raise money to directly assist an important study in Pediatric Cancer research, the details of which are listed below. Please help me and donate so I may hit my goal! For the 2011 Chicago Marathon I have decided to match all of your donations at 25%! That means if you donate $100 dollars, I'm kicking in an extra $25! However if hit my goal time of 4 hours or less, I will up my match to 50%!! So please join me in helping this amazing organization, thank you!

My fellow team of Endure to Cure's Chicago Marathon runners and I, along with other courageous fundraising athletes within our foundation, are trying to fully-fund a pediatric cancer survivorship study at the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital in 2011 and 2012. The study will enable a clinical psychologist to research methods to reduce the long-term effects of harsh treatments on pediatric cancer patients. Your donation will directly go towards funding a Masters or PhD-level clinical research psychologist’s salary for a year. The clinical psychologist will be the sole person involved in this study.

So why this is this study important? Many people do not realize that 60% of pediatric cancer patients will suffer long term side effects, often times severe, after they have been deemed "survivors." Post-survivorship is a very underfunded and under-examined area of study. This study can have an immediate impact with patients the psychologist examines, and a long-term effect as more data can be used to put new post-survivorship treatment methods into place.

Please join me in my fight against pediatric cancer by donating to this amazing foundation. No contribution is too small! Thank you.