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How the Pan-Mass Challenge bike-a-thon became a $1 billion force for cancer research

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Billy Starr launched the Pan-Mass Challenge bike-a-thon after his mother passed away from cancer when he was 23 .

Every dollar goes directly to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston , where more than half of the cancer drugs approved by the FDA in the last five years were developed.

Event has become the largest single athletic fundraiser in the U.S ..

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75

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75

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9

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informal

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English

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33

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