Dave Evans, a 59-year-old former teacher living in Lewes (England), will run a marathon, a demanding 42.2 km race that will take place in London next Sunday, April 23. The really inspiring thing is that Dave has terminal brain cancer.
This ‘fighter’ hopes to raise funds for an association that is researching a cure for his disease, the Brain Tumor Charity.
To try to meet his goal, he trains with a group of runners created to support people with a cancer diagnosis who practice this sport, led by Ros Addison.
“It will be emotionally intense, I think. But the emotion takes you,” Dave Evans told the BBC.
The former professor was diagnosed with a brain tumor two years ago, after suffering from seizures. Since then, he has undergone radiation therapy and chemotherapy in an attempt to beat the disease. But the tumor was an aggressive form of brain cancer with no cure, glioblastoma, the same one that killed The Wanted singer Tom Parker.
“It is incurable and terminal. 50% of patients die within 15 months of diagnosis and only about 5% live beyond five years,” the man told the English newspaper ‘The Argus’.
So far, Evans has raised more than £9,850 of her £10,000 target.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project