Approximately every 3 minutes, one person in the U.S. is diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma. These are blood and bone marrow cancers. Houstonian, Anuj Patel was one of them. Now, he and his family are raising awareness and money for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.

(WSAZ) – Harold Fitzwater is riding nearly 400 miles through Kentucky and West Virginia to visit his father’s grave -- and raise money to fight cancer. Normally, people in eastern Kentucky and western West Virginia wouldn’t think twice about seeing a man on a horse, but seeing Harold Fitzwater and his horses on a busy highway has turned heads. “People say they’ve never seen horses going through town,” he says. They planned to ride horseback from where they lived in Somerset, Kentucky, and return to their roots in Ivydale, West Virginia. As they were training their horses for the trip, Harold’s dad was diagnosed with lung cancer and died shortly afterward.