Carrera de las Ciudades contra el cáncer de Pancreas

The Carrera de las Ciudades contra el Cáncer de Páncreas is a Spanish solidarity race series with local editions in Alboraya, Burgos, and Ávila. It is a public running event, not an elite-only race, with the direct purpose of giving visibility to pancreatic cancer and raising money for research. The series is organized by the Spanish Association of Pancreatology, the Pancreatic Cancer Association, and the Spanish Association of Gastroenterology, keeping the medical and research mission central to the event. The course details vary locally: the Burgos race is a popular running event starting on Paseo Sierra de Atapuerca, while the Alicante origin story involved a race run between cities. The pancreatology group at Dr. Balmis University General Hospital in Alicante proposed the idea on behalf of the Spanish Association of Pancreatology. The event is aimed at society broadly, designed for ordinary runners, supporters, patients’ families, and anyone wishing to back pancreatic cancer research on race day.