My Cause

The Mission: Since 2015, the #TruthAboutTC campaign has played a critical role in raising awareness of thyroid cancer and helping to dispel common misperceptions about the disease.

About the Organization: ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc., the Light of Life Foundation, the Thyroid, Head and Neck Cancer (THANC) Foundation and Eisai Inc. have joined forces to bring back the #TruthAboutTC Virtual Walk-a-Thon this Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month! Last year, hundreds of people stepped up to raise awareness of thyroid cancer (TC) by walking nearly 29 million steps!

This year, we’re challenging you to go above and beyond to help harness the community’s passion. How can we bring more light into the world while we raise TC awareness? By spreading kindness. In addition to counting steps or their fitness equivalent, we’ve added a new category for people to participate in: acts of kindness.

Whether you choose to do good for others, or need to start from within, the world is a better place when we practice kindness. Here’s how it works: each act of kindness you perform during the walk-a-thon counts as a certain number of steps. The more generous the activity, the more steps you achieve. See the table below for more information. It’s a little different, but after the past couple of years, we can all use more kindness in our lives. We hope you join us and encourage your friends and family to get involved as well in raising awareness and donations!