LOUISVILLE, Ky. — More than 1,000 people walked in Louisville Saturday to help fight breast cancer.

The Susan G. Komen More Than Pink Walk returned to Louisville’s waterfront to celebrate survivors and to raise funds to achieve their goal of ending breast cancer forever.

What You Need To Know

  • The Susan G. Komen organization returned to Louisville to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer with the More Than Pink walk

  • The 2023 walk saw over 1,000 participants, including 250 survivors

  • The Louisville walk has raised more than $45,000 so far

In October 2021, 48-year-old Melissa Wynn went to her regularly scheduled mammogram when her doctor told her something no one wants to hear.

“I found out at my mammogram,” Wynn said. “I had no idea. I did not feel anything, and the mammogram showed something.”

It was something that Wynn and her family hoped would be nothing. According to Stony Brook University Cancer Center, 80% of breast lumps are benign, or non-cancerous.

“So I really had a feeling all through it, though, that something wasn’t right,” she said. “That it was probably, I don’t know. I felt that God was giving me a peace about it. You don’t don’t think that it’s not going to be something, because it is something.”

Unfortunately, Wynn was right. In December 2021, she was diagnosed with cancer.

“It is scary,” she said.

A month later, she said she had the lump removed. On Saturday, she walked in the More Than Pink Walk to support others with cancer.

“I walked before I had cancer for my grandmother who passed away from it,” she said. “So I’m here just to walk and support and to see how many people it affects, because sometimes you think it’s just you, and there’s so many people out there who’s going through it.”

Of the more than 1,000 participants on Saturday, 250 were survivors.

“It raises money and shows us that everybody joins in a community and we need to raise money to find a cure,” said Stacy Scovanner, Kentucky chairperson for Susan G. Komen. “We should have a cure by now, in 2023, for breast cancer survivors.”

Wynn said she recommends others with breast cancer to lean on their loved ones.

“Let your family help you, even when you want to say it’s okay,” Wynn said. “Let them carry some of the burden of it. Let them help you and support you, as well as your work family and your friends.”

The organization is still taking donations on its website. The Louisville walk has raised more than $45,000 so far.

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