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# Team Heather Wraps Up Year Three of Kicking PancreAS
- URL: https://heathercutler.ca/team-heather-wraps-up-year-three-of-kicking-pancreas/
- Published: 2025-06-01T19:14:58.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-09T06:24:01.000Z
- Description: Foundation marks third year of participation in Craig’s Cause flagship event supporting Canadians with pancreatic cancer.
- Author: The Heather Cutler Foundation
- Tags: Press Release, Craig's Cause, Events

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

**St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador – June 1, 2025** – Team Heather has officially wrapped up its third consecutive year participating in Kicking PancreAS, the annual 5K walk-run fundraiser hosted by [Craig’s Cause Pancreatic Cancer Society](https://heathercutler.ca/tag/craigs-cause/). The event, held this year at Quidi Vidi Lake, brought together 143 participants in Newfoundland and raised over $9,600 nationally, supporting vital patient programs and research efforts across Canada.

For The Heather Cutler Foundation, Kicking PancreAS is more than a run—it’s a chance to stand alongside families impacted by pancreatic cancer, raise awareness, and build community. Each year, Team Heather shows up [in memory of Heather Cutler](https://heathercutler.ca/what-petition-e-5186-means-to-me-a-sons-fight-for-pancreatic-cancer-change/), a proud Newfoundlander, nurse, and mother whose story continues to inspire change.

> “In honour of Heather Cutler, and the thousands of Canadians we lose each year to pancreatic cancer, we remain committed to fighting for a Canada where a diagnosis doesn’t mean saying goodbye,” said Christopher Cutler, Founder of The Heather Cutler Foundation.

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Gallery of Event photography by Peter Barfoot (©2025 Peter Barfoot)

  
## **About Kicking PancreAS**

Kicking PancreAS is a Canada-wide event hosted by [Craig’s Cause Pancreatic Cancer Society](https://heathercutler.ca/tag/craigs-cause/). All proceeds directly fund patient support programs, clinical trial navigation, molecular testing access, and high-impact research. Since its launch, the event has helped thousands of families access care and has become a cornerstone of community-based advocacy.

Five years ago, pancreatic cancer wasn’t even on their radar

This year, Kicking PancreAS events are held in several provinces, with Newfoundland’s race drawing its highest participation yet. Across the country, teams ran, walked, and rallied behind loved ones and lost ones—all with one goal: to push for progress in one of Canada’s deadliest and most underfunded cancers.

## **About The Heather Cutler Foundation**

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Team Heather at Kicking PancreAS in April of 2023 following Heather Cutler’s diagnosis with pancreatic cancer.

  
Founded in 2024 following the loss of Heather Cutler, The Heather Cutler Foundation is challenging the status quo in Canadian pancreatic cancer care. Inspired by Heather’s journey from nurse to patient, the foundation fights for equitable access to diagnostics, treatments, and clinical trials—especially in provinces like Newfoundland and Labrador, where access remains deeply uneven.