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Ben's Run: A Benefit Race for Children with Cancer Returns for Third Year
Participants have raised more than $80,000 in two years for a special fund at Children's National Medical Center.
For the third time in as many years, members of the Stonegate community in Silver Spring will gather for Ben's Run, an event to raise money for children with cancer and commemorate the life of Ben Goldfogle. Ben, who grew up in Stonegate, died in 2009 at the age of 11 after a six-year battle with leukemia. Clare Goldfogle, Ben’s mother, describes her son as “a really, really caring young man.” “He never, ever really complained about his situation,” she said. Ben was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at age 5. He spent a lot of time at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. the next six years, according to his mother, and underwent two bone marrow transplants. “While he didn’t feel well lots of times, he was …
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