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Orioles Staffer Remembered At Breathe Deep Baltimore Lung Cancer Walk

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- The Orioles teamed up with the LUNGevity Foundation to fight lung cancer, and honor one of their own. Hundreds participated in the event at Camden Yards on Saturday morning.

The LUNGevity Foundation hosts walks all over the country, and this is the ninth annual Breathe Deep Walk in Baltimore.

Hundreds came out to Camden Yards to raise awareness and funds, including survivors and those who lost loved ones to the disease, working together to fight lung cancer.

The Orioles hosting the event also in memory of their late public relations director Monica Barlow, who lost her life to lung cancer in 2014.

"Since she has been gone, its a way for me to both remember her and also trying to make sure as few people have to go through what me and her family had to go through," said Monica's husband Ben Barlow, who's walking in memory of his wife.

Ben Barlow leads Team Barlow, one of the largest fundraising teams for the Baltimore walk.

"We hope the day comes when lung cancer and other cancers are just a chronic disease we have to deal with and not something that takes our loved ones," said Barlow.

LUNGevity's walks continue to grow larger every year. Over the last nine years, Breathe Deep Baltimore has raised more than half a million dollars for lung cancer research.

"I just celebrated five years as a survivor," said lung cancer survivor Keith Humphries.

This year's walk had 11 survivors participate, and they were all joined by their family and friends.

"You can't do this by yourself, you have to have a support group, they have motivated me and given me strength," said Humphries.

The LUNGevity Foundation will be hosting another walk in Washington, DC in November.

To find out more information about the event and other events, or to donate CLICK HERE.

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