Texas 4000

During The University of Texas’ 40 Acres Fest,501 people symbolically “ended cancer.” Each participant was given a card that said “cancer” and asked to finish the sentence, symbolically “ending cancer.” The feat was led by the Texas 4000 bicycle team.

Moses Brasher

Adam Brasher spelled 42 words using the letters in “Cancer” in one tweet.

JoeNagy

Joseph Nagy let out a “boo” directed towards cancer that lasted non-stop for 54.31 seconds.

Melissa Owens

Melissa Owens embarked upon a personal goal to break a hugging record. She gave out 600 hugs during a flash mob at Portlandrsquo;s Pioneer Courthouse Square[].

Owensrsquo; hugging record was the fifth URDB record to be set by supporters of the OHSU AYA program at the Knight Cancer Institute[].

Moses Brasher

Adam Brasher spelled 55 words using the letters found in the word “LIVESTRONG” and put them in a single tweet.

Art Hoffman

Art Hoffman ripped 22 cigarettes in half.

Selena Inouye

Selena Inouye posted ablog poston OhMyAchesAndPains about cancer that received received 101 comments in 24 hours.

Steven Gaul

Steven Gaul played the drums for 121 hours (7,260 minutes). Gaul set this record to raise money for cancer research.

Read more about the event here.

Harry

Harry wrote “Beat Cancer” 10 times on a Skype call in 34.51 seconds.

Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya

Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya listed 21 different celebrities who have Cancer as their astrological sign in a tweet.

Mel Sampson

346 people at theCanadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s Run For The Cure[]event “booed” cancer at once.

The feat was set during World Record Weekon K-Rock 89.3.

OHSU Knight Cancer Institute

The OHSU Knight Cancer Institute faculty and staff and AYA External Advisory Committee members stood and cheered without interruption in honor of the cancer survivors for one minute and 19.01 seconds.

Dustin Tyler

Dustin Tyler made a Facebook post that listed 23 songs with “cancer” in the title.

University of Texas

10,000 fans at a college football game between the Texas Longhorns andOklahoma Sooners held up Livestrong placards showing their support in the battle against cancer.

The record was set at the Cotton Bowlin Dallas, Texas on October 2, 2010.

Next Conference 2011 Attendees

Twitter users around the world sent a total of 224 tweets to Bena Roberts in a 24-hour period, wishing her good thoughts in her battle against cancer. Roberts, who is fighting breast cancer, had no idea the tweets were coming.

The record was kicked off during a speech by URDB president Dan Rollman at the 2011 Next Conference in Berlin, Germany.

See all tweets sent to @BenaRoberts here.

Read Bena’s blog post about the record here.