Approximately nine hundred runners hit the rainy streets of Charlottetown on Sunday to help raise $160,000 for cancer research.

The Run for the Cure was full of survival stories that inspired hundreds of runners.

Four years ago, a healthy Diane Nabuurs used to run in honour of her family members who were struck by cancer.Then her life changed.

"I knew I had to beat it. And I never looked back," said Nabuurs, a breast cancer survivor. "I had a big task ahead of me."

Nabuurs beat her cancer with the help and guidance of her aunt Genevieve and mother-in-law Nancy, both breast cancer survivors.

"It made a common thread for us," said Genevieve Ryder. "We're able to talk about the positive things and how grateful we are to be here today."

The money raised by the runners and walkers will fund cancer programs close to home.

"It's really important that a person who is going through treatment and going through everything that a breast cancer patient goes through has the support locally," said run organizer Melissa MacDonald.

Diane Nabuurs says being able to have treatment on Prince Edward Island, close to family, is a big part of why she's healthy today.

"Family support, community support, it all plays such an important part in our whole healing process," said Nabuurs.