Cancer patients embark on annual 1,100-km cycling tour of Taiwan

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/05
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan

Taipei, Nov. 5 (CNA) More than 40 people with cancer, including eight from Hong Kong, set off from Taipei on Sunday on a 1,100-kilometer cycling trip around Taiwan to encourage cancer patients to approach the illness with optimism and bravery.

A total of 105 people, including family members of the patients, physicians, nurses, and a cancer patient from Malaysia who will join the tour in Yilan County, are taking part in the trip, which has been organized by the Taiwanese Anti-Cancer Association for seven straight years.

They will cycle down the east coast to southern Taiwan and head north up the west coast, and expect to return to Taipei on Nov. 14.    [FULL  STORY]