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Thousand gathered in North Austin Sunday event to continue the fight against cancer.

The 10th annual Light the Night Celebration, hosted by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, brought about 4,000 people to Mueller Lake Park in East Austin.

Michelle Summers knows what it's like to fight for her life. At 24, just months after giving birth to her first child, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer.

?When you are that young you feel like you are invincible," Summers said. ?"You hear it all the time, your life flashes before your eyes, and it literally does. I had 24 years of life and it felt like it was gone.?

She?s now been cancer-free for five years.

At the 10th annual Light the Night walk in Austin, Summers is one of many who have battled the disease. The money raised from the walk will go towards cancer research as well as patient care and resources.

Organizers said they were on pace to collect close to $700,000 this year.

"We're seeing advances every day, in fact since our organization was founded in 1949, we have seen survival rates increase four fold," Veronica Glass with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society said.

Participants were organized into three groups identified by different colored balloons. Supporters of cancer research held red balloons, cancer survivors held white balloons and those who had lost a loved one to the disease held gold balloons.

"How many people could have survived,? Summers said. ?I did and I would like to come back next year and see less gold balloons and maybe more white ones."

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is the world?s largest health agency dedicated to blood cancers.

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