Funds raised at the PurpleStride Event will go towards high-priority research areas for this disease; some of these areas include identifying biomarkers for early detection, developing drugs that target specific gene mutations, understanding how the tumor microenvironment alters drug delivery, and harnessing the immune system for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n
The American Cancer Society says as of 2026<\/a>, pancreatic cancer accounts for about 3% of all cancers in the U.S. and about 8% of all cancer deaths.<\/p>\n The disease hits close to home for Mike, which is why he has been actively involved in the PurpleStride event in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n Action News Jax’s Mike Burish emcees at PurpleStride <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n Mike\u2019s mom was diagnosed with the deadliest cancer in the world in 2007. Mike chronicled his mother\u2019s very graceful battle for the nine months she fought the disease in \u201cA Very Personal Journey: My Mom\u2019s Fight Against Terminal Cancer<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Not a day goes by when Mike does not think about his mom \u2013 a Jacksonville star in her own right, as she starred in several local CBS47 and FOX30 promotions with Mike.<\/p>\n Donations toward the PurpleStride will be accepted until June 30. You can click here<\/a> to donate to the Jacksonville event.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Thousands of dollars — and counting — to fight pancreatic cancer was raised on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,28,348,116,351,118,117,50985,349,97929,97930,97927,97926,97928,97931,350,346,345],"class_list":{"0":"post-247116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action-news-jax","9":"tag-cbs47","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-fox30","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-fl","14":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","15":"tag-jacksonville-news","16":"tag-mike-buresh","17":"tag-northeast-florida","18":"tag-pancan-purple-stride","19":"tag-pancreatic-cancer-action-network","20":"tag-purple-stride","21":"tag-purplestride","22":"tag-purplestride-jacksonville-fl","23":"tag-purplestride-mike-buresh","24":"tag-southeast-georgia","25":"tag-wfox","26":"tag-wjax"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/cmg\/EZJROZ6MRRBY7MU7ECZU4EZXUY.jpg\")
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