Welcome to Our PanCAN PurpleStride Team Fundraising Page! 

Please join us in participating in the 2025 PurpleStride walk to bring awareness and find a cure for pancreatic cancer. Our team Green Boots is celebrating the life of our dear family members who left us too soon, my mom Bea Fritsche in April 2021 at age 86, my brother Pat Fritsche in November 2022 at age 56 (he died of complications of sudden onset diabetes) and my sister-in-law Anne Young Fritsche in October 2024 at age 55.

Mom, Pat and Anne lived valiantly, living each day with remarkable courage and resilience, choosing to live fully and loving everyone around them despite the challenges they faced.

Our team wants to make the biggest impact on the lives of pancreatic cancer patients – and we need you to do it!

We’re taking steps at the ultimate walk to end pancreatic cancer, PanCAN PurpleStride, on Saturday, April 26, 2025.

PurpleStride participants raise money to fund vital research that can bring new treatment options to patients; free, personalized, one-to-one support through PanCAN Patient Services; and more.

Here’s where you come in! 

We’ve set an ambitious fundraising goal – because the more money we raise, the bigger impact we make – and would be profoundly grateful for your donation. A gift of any size will help patients and families facing a pancreatic cancer diagnosis.  

Want to help in a bigger way? We’d love for you to join our team! Just click the Register button at the top of this page to get started. Register for free, raise $50 and you’ll receive an official PanCAN PurpleStride 2025 T-shirt!

Let’s show everyone impacted by pancreatic cancer that we’re fighting for them – thank you for your support!