Kingston woman talks about how Run for the Cure enabled her to beat breast cancer

Cheryl Benoit-Cameron was diagnosed with breast cancer after participating in the run for years.

The upcoming CIBC Run for the Cure event in Kingston will be more significant for one participant.

Cheryl Benoit-Cameron is a breast cancer survivor and one of the Ambassadors of Hope for this Sunday's run at St. Lawrence College.

Benoit-Cameron tells Reid and Ben of 98.3 FLY FM that she had been taking part in the run before finding out that she was one out of every eight women in Canada who is diagnosed with breast cancer.

Benoit-Cameron says she discovered a lump while doing a self-diagnosis despite being healthy, active, and having no family history of cancer.

She stresses the importance for getting checked out.

Benoit-Cameron had to undergo four surgeries and radiation then spent the next five years receiving treatment and therapy.

The Director of the CIBC Run for the Cure in Kingston, Diane Sabourin, reached out to Benoit-Cameron about becoming an ambassador for the event.

Sabourin says they are still taking registration up until the day of the event.

The event this Sunday starts at 9 a.m. and Sabourin says everyone is welcomed to come down.

The run began in 1992 and has raised more than $507 million for breast cancer research. All the money raised here will go towards the breast health clinic at Kingston Health Sciences Centre.

Benoit-Cameron says events like this one is one of the reasons she is still alive.

For more information or to register for the run, go to the CIBC Run for the Cure website. 

Story by Ken Hashizume