Music for METAvivor 2023 at Kahle

The community is invited to join METAvivor for a special concert featuring local favorites Ike and Martin on Monday, July 31 from 5 p.m.. to 8 p.m. at Kahle Community Center Park, Stateline, Nev.

It will be an evening of good music, good food, and good friends as they raise money to fund desperately needed metastatic research. Food trucks will be on-site, with a portion of their proceeds going to METAvivor, or BYOD (bring your own dinner). Bring your own beverage (adult beverages are fine but NO GLASS CONTAINERS), a chair, and friends (but not the four-legged kind since no animals are allowed at Kahle) and help save some lives!

Why are people from Lake Tahoe putting on a fundraiser for METAvivor? What is METAvivor and what is metastatic breast cancer?

If you know someone who has died from breast cancer, they died from metastatic breast cancer. “Metastatic” means the cancer has escaped the breast and traveled to distant sites, like bones, lungs, liver, or brain. Cancer that stays in the breast does not kill. Approximately six percent of initial breast cancer diagnoses are metastatic, and approximately 28 percent of women and men with early-stage breast cancer will become metastatic; the median life expectancy after a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer is only 36 months, and in 2023 over 44,000 Americans will die due to metastatic breast cancer.

Despite this reality, the large breast cancer fundraisers only give a small percentage of their research funds to studying ways to help the already metastasized patient. Many experts believe we are on the cusp of making metastatic breast cancer a chronic disease if only there were more money to do the research needed to develop effective treatments. METAvivor, a non-profit organization with a volunteer board (the majority of whom have metastatic breast cancer themselves), directs 100 percent of donations to such metastatic research, through a vigorous scientific peer-review process. Since 2009, METAvivor has funded over 28 MILLION dollars of vital research, including $9+ million in the midst of a pandemic when larger, better-known organizations suspended their research grant programs.

Minimum Donation $25/person (Kids under 10 free)

For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit HERE.