Join us for the FISHING TOURNAMENT on April 25, 2026, as we raise funds for community fundraising efforts aimed at supporting cancer patient programs and advancing cancer research. Together, we can help end cancer and provide opportunities for kids camp experiences. For more information, please go to our EVENTS PAGE.
About Us
Our Founder and Executive Director
Karen Ball Founder, Casting Out Cancer Karen Ball was diagnosed with cancer in 2015. What followed was a journey of treatment, uncertainty, and resilience that would ultimately shape her life’s mission. In 2016 — still very sick and in the middle of her fight — Karen set a goal to participate in the very first Boot Walk to End All Cancers benefiting MD Anderson Cancer Center. She didn’t show up because she felt strong. She showed up because she felt grateful. Grateful to be alive. Grateful for research. Grateful for hope. That gratitude became action. Over the next eight years, Karen continued fundraising and serving on the leadership committee. In November 2025, she served as Head Chair of the Boot Walk — helping lead 11,000 walkers and helping raise more than $2 million in a single day to support cancer research, treatment development, and patient programs. Just two weeks after undergoing triple bypass surgery — and with a broken leg — Karen led that walk in a wheelchair. She showed up anyway. She led anyway. She trusted God to make it work — and He did. Now a 10-year cancer survivor, Karen continues turning survival into service through Casting Out Cancer — funding research, advancing patient programs, and sponsoring children facing cancer so they can attend life-changing camp experiences. For Karen, survival was never the end of the story. It was the beginning of her calling. To date Casting Out Cancer has raised over $230,000.00 benefiting programs for ending all cancers and sending kids with cancer to camp
2022 Casting Out Cancer Gala
This was the first Live Gala after the Pandemic in Galveston at the Sea Star Base
11th Annual Casting Out Cancer Gala
Seafood Buffet, Live and Silent Auction, Music, Fun!!
