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Cancer Survivors Park

United States

Cancer Survivors Park refers to a series of parks funded by the Bloch Foundation. Twenty-five parks were built across the US and Canada. They are all different but designed with the same elements: A walk with bronze plaques containing inspirational and instructional information The Cancer, There Is Hope sculpture of eight people passing through a maze that represents cancer treatment A walk with bronze plaques containing information about cancer and basic actions to overcome it The park program was founded by Richard Bloch (co-founder of H&R Block) and his wife Annette Block, after Richard survived lung cancer. The parks were part of a larger program supporting cancer research and patient education.

Park data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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