Sarcoma research gives me hope.
My name is Tina, and I have a bone disease that genetically predisposes me to chondrosarcoma, a rare bone cancer with no effective chemotherapy treatments. At any moment, chondrosarcoma can begin growing anywhere in my body.
Over the past nine years, I’ve had nine surgeries and 17 tumors removed. I’m incredibly grateful for the medical care and monitoring available to me in Pittsburgh, but despite that care, I still live with uncertainty about what comes next.
Although billions of dollars are invested in cancer research every year, there are still no effective treatment options for chondrosarcoma. Rare cancers matter too, and patients facing them deserve better options.
Since 2012, supporting sarcoma research has become part of my family’s life. My sister, mother, and I have been running this team since 2014, and Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma activities have filled our house for years. I attended my first committee meetings at five years old, helped with sponsorship outreach at eleven, and officially joined race planning at fourteen. My sister runs race registration, and my mom has served as a board member and leads committee meetings.
But this mission has grown beyond our own family.
Through the sarcoma community, we’ve met patients, parents, physicians, researchers, survivors, and volunteers whose experiences continue to reinforce why this work matters: better treatments, better care, and better outcomes.
Research creates possibilities. It creates options for patients and families like us who currently have too few.
Thank you for supporting Team TnT Dynamite and Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma. We hope you’ll join us again this year to help fund sarcoma research!
Team TnT - Tina and Tori Wisniewski
