Editor’s note: The swim has been canceled due to unsafe waters brought on by Hurricane Dorian, according to a statement from Women & Infants Hospital.
PROVIDENCE – Women & Infants Hospital and Swim Across America will partner this week in an effort to raise money for gynecological and breast cancer research at the hospital.
“Make Waves to Fight Cancer,” the 10th Annual Swim Across America Rhode Island Swim, will take place Sept. 7 at Roger Wheeler Beach in Narragansett.
Swimmers of all ages and abilities are welcome to register for the half-mile or mile open-water swim.
Last year’s event raised more than $220,000 for Women & Infants. Organizers this year hope to surpass $1 million to support oncology research in the Women & Infants Center for Biomarkers and Emerging Technologies, an initiative of the Program in Women’s Oncology and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory medicine.
Registration is at swimacrossamerica.org.
For information about the Women & Infants Swim with the Doctors team, “One Fin Tuna,” contact Ivan Colon at 401-921-8509 or Icolon@carene.org. This year’s team captain is Dr. David Edmonson.
As a kickoff to the event, native Rhode Islander and Olympic swimmer and medalist Elizabeth Beisel is scheduled to visit the Women & Infants Hospital’s Program in Women’s Oncology Infusion Center in Providence on Sept. 6.
