DCC Sets Participation, Fundraising Records
This year’s event raised $15 million to benefit Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
By Kimberly Bobson Feldman
Photography by CLUTCH Content Partners
More than $90 million has been raised since the event began in 2010.
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early 7,400 attendees supported survivors and remembered those lost to cancer at the 15th Dolphins Cancer Challenge (DCC), held February 22 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. With record turnout and funds raised, this longstanding partnership between the Miami Dolphins and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the Miller School of Medicine, is helping fund discoveries that will result in the best care for both cancer patients and survivors.
The day’s theme, “Together to Get There,” highlighted how the quest for cancer cures is truly a team effort. In 2020, the DCC made a commitment of $75 million in donations to Sylvester. Last year, two years ahead of schedule, that commitment was fulfilled. This year, the DCC raised $15 million, bringing the total to more than $90 million. The DCC, which is the NFL’s No. 1 fundraising event, donates 100% of participant-raised funds to Sylvester.
“We are very grateful for the longstanding partnership we have with the Miami Dolphins,” said Stephen D. Nimer, M.D., director of Sylvester, the Oscar de La Renta Endowed Chair in Cancer Research, executive dean for research and professor of medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology at the Miller School. “Thanks to the shared vision of the Dolphins organization, the talented and dedicated cancer physicians and researchers at Sylvester and the engaged and philanthropic South Florida community over the past 15 years, we have made incredible progress in developing new cancer treatments for patients here and around the globe. We are providing more innovative and lifesaving treatments that are reducing the impact of cancer on our community, and we are providing more hope and cures for our patients and their families.”
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