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Throwing Bones’ mission is to educate and advocate for individuals living with cancer to help them be cancer active and improve their quality of life through healthy and active lifestyles.
Explore Throwing Bones in the media from guest articles written by Kenny Capps or where we are featured.
Patient Power (2024) – Multiple myeloma is a rare disease, accounting for about 2% of cancer diagnoses in the United States. Before the advent of social media and the internet, people with rare diseases struggled to find others who could understand and relate to their journey. Now, support and connection are just a click away. Read below to meet four multiple myeloma advocates who share knowledge, inspire hope, and create community on Instagram, Facebook, and other platforms. And then get social with them!
HealthTree (2023) – Misguided friends, family, and possibly some of your healthcare providers might exclusively encourage rest only during your cancer treatment. However, recent studies suggest that purposeful physical activity can be incredibly beneficial for multiple myeloma patients.
Exercise, within safe limits, has been shown to improve both physical and psychological well-being.
HealthTree (2022) – It has long been assumed that physically “heartier” patients are more able to withstand cancer treatments. Patients who are less active, struggling with maintaining active lifestyles and suffer from multiple ailments or “comorbidities” (not to mention the challenges caused by cancer) are often ineligible for harsher treatments that otherwise might benefit how long they live and how much they enjoy life.
Medical Stories (2022) – Kenny’s friends considered him the healthiest guy in the room and were shocked when the long-distance runner learned he had Multiple Myeloma. See how Kenny finds the strength to go the distance. Featuring renowned expert, Dr. Sagar Lonial, from Emory University School of Medicine.
Patient Power (2021) – You might say Kenny Capps was running for his life. In 2018, the lifelong endurance athlete ran 1,175 miles in 54 days across the length of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail in North Carolina to raise awareness and funds for the disease he’d been diagnosed with a few years earlier, multiple myeloma.
In an eye-popping Patient Power article about his cancer odyssey, Kenny takes you along for his run, (basically a marathon per day!), starting from Jockey’s Ridge State Park in the Outer Banks.
Patient Power (2021) – As Harvard Medical School explains in an online article, “There are hundreds of studies showing real, tangible benefits of exercise for patients with a variety of different cancers and at different stages.” Physical activity, even in small doses, can help improve bone density, balance, and stamina throughout the day.
Conquer (2018) – By the end of 2016, I completed 16 races, including 3 half- marathons and an intense 18-mile trail race with 5,000 feet of elevation. My disease wasn’t in remission, and I continued with maintenance chemotherapy and doctor’s appointments after the transplant. Staying alive, more than ever, meant being persistent, and adjusting to a new normal. It’s not easy, and next to impossible to do on your own.
Black Mountain News (2018) – At 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 3, the Throwing Bones Trail 5K will get underway on the Black Mountain campus of Montreat College. The event gives runners a brief glimpse of what daily life will be like for Capps once he begins his nearly two-month run.
Black Mountain News (2017) – Kenny Capps spoke to the Black Mountain Rotary Club at its June 6 meeting at Givens Highland Farms about his journey with cancer and the Running Bones Race. It was a compelling presentation.
WLOS 13 News (2016) – Five days before heading to Atlanta for surgery and a month of isolation to combat an aggressive form of bone marrow cancer, Black Mountain resident and Kudzu Printing Co. owner Kenny Capps will be enveloped in the sights and sounds of friendship; White Horse Black Mountain hosts a benefit concert planned by a group of his loved ones on Thursday, Aug. 13.
Mountain Xpress (2015) – Five days before heading to Atlanta for surgery and a month of isolation to combat an aggressive form of bone marrow cancer, Black Mountain resident and Kudzu Printing Co. owner Kenny Capps will be enveloped in the sights and sounds of friendship; White Horse Black Mountain hosts a benefit concert planned by a group of his loved ones on Thursday, Aug. 13.