Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary Hosts 2nd Annual Fundraiser

Hundreds of men and women will take part in Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary’s Yoga in Motion event - a double fitness marathon featuring yoga and Zumba®fitness, the newest craze in cardio fitness - to raise funds for life-saving breast cancer research at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital.

The second annual event – to be held at the Liberty Grand Entertainment Complex on April 25 - is designed for yoga enthusiasts, fitness fans and beginners alike, with a series of four yoga and four Zumba® sessions led by some of Toronto’s top instructors. Yoga in Motion will also feature great gift bags, lots of prizes, product vendors, healthy lifestyle information, breast cancer screening and food samples.

The event’s ambassador, Dr. Marla Shapiro, a medical doctor, health journalist and breast cancer survivor, says, “I'm inspired to champion an event that will benefit breast cancer awareness, research and education. Together, we are in motion for a cure. Please join me and hundreds of others as we take part in a marathon of yoga and Zumba® on April 25, 2010."

Yoga in Motion participants are asked to raise a minimum $250 each, with fundraising support tools provided through the Yoga in Motion website. All proceeds will support groundbreaking breast cancer research at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute.

In October 2009, an exciting collaboration between Dr. Bob Casper and his team at the Lunenfeld and Dr. Aaron Wheeler’s team at the University of Toronto resulted in an innovative approach for measuring estrogen levels in clinical samples. The ‘Lab on a Chip’ approach employs silicon wafer-based electronics technology to extract estrogen from as little as 1 microlitre of a tissue sample (1,000 times less material than typically required), and could lead to more sensitive diagnostic tests to assess the risk of breast cancer.

In February 2009, Lunenfeld Principal Investigator Dr. Jeff Wrana and his team unveiled new technology that can analyze breast cancer tumours to determine a patient’s best treatment option, and predict with more than 80 per cent accuracy a patient’s chance of recovery.

“Breast cancer devastates more Canadian women than any other cancer,” says Ian Taylor, a PhD candidate at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute and a member of Dr. Wrana’s research team. “The advancement in breast cancer research since the mid-1980s has been substantial and this would not have been possible without generous donor support. Researchers, health-care professionals, donors and the community each have their part in improving breast health.”

Please visit www.yogainmotion.ca for more information.

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