Faces of the Fight

For one Pennsylvania credit union, it would have been hard enough to lose an employee to cancer in July 2009. But, when it lost another employee two months later, the call to action couldn’t have been louder or clearer.

So, the Erie Federal Credit Union (EFCU) answered the call by creating a fundraiser that allowed any one of its members to raise money for KCRF.

Kathy Bottorf and her family are immersed in radio broadcasting. Her parents founded WCTA-AM in Plymouth, Indiana, in 1964, and the family currently owns and operates that station as well as WZOC-FM, also in Plymouth. Kathy has worked in the business her entire life, and she is joined by Jim, her husband of 22 years...

Recently, Lance and Jen Korsun, of St. Louis, Mo, started a nonprofit organization to raise money to help find a treatment that can eliminate cancer. After starting with a few small donations, they decided to pursue the idea further with the desire to positively impact the lives of as many people as possible.

As a young girl, I loved when my mother would play with my hair. I had dark curls that clung to my head and she would weave her fingers through my hair as I snuggled close to her. One evening, in the fall of 1978, my mom found a lump on the right side of my neck...

Fighting his own battle with lung cancer since 2007, Huggins has made the Kanzius Non-invasive Radio Wave Cancer Treatment his own personal cause and has spent countless hours emailing, talking, writing, cajoling, and encouraging anyone and everyone who would listen about the need for funding t...

May 9, 2001 changed my life, for it was on this day I was told I had breast cancer. My best friend and I researched my options and spoke with several physicians. I was 39 years old and treated with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. I donated an 18 ½ inch long...

Above all else, Dennis Rohde was a family man. His professional success only gave him the opportunity to make life better for those he loved. His family and his friends have turned his legacy into a fight against cancer, the disease that took him from them in the prime of his life. The First Annual Dennis Rohde Golf Tournament at the Sugar Creek Club in High Ridge, MO raised more than $9,000 for Kanzius Cancer Research...