On Sunday 19 April 2026, Giuseppe Miuccio brings Run for Voices to Cardiff, Wales for Country #11 of his 50K in 50 Countries challenge. The event is listed on the Run for Voices website from 06:00 to 11:50 in Cardiff. He runs in memory of his uncle, Antonino “Zio Nino”, whose throat cancer journey inspired this global mission. But in Cardiff, he is also running for Jon Organ — a man whose life was changed permanently by cancer of the voice box and a total laryngectomy.
Jon’s story begins with something many people would dismiss: a hoarse voice that had been there for a long time. He had initially been told it may have been linked to steroid inhalers he used for COPD. But when an urgent ENT referral finally happened in November 2022, the truth was far more serious. He was told he had cancer of the voice box. After biopsy and scans, Jon was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer, covering 40% of his airway.
Then the situation worsened.
After further scans, Jon was told the cancer had grown through the thyroid. The treatment plan changed completely. He was given an appalling choice: chemotherapy and radiotherapy and hope, or a total laryngectomy. He was told that without the surgery, he would more than likely be dead by the end of June. He had three days to decide. He chose the operation.
That is why this run matters.
Run for Voices is not simply about endurance, countries or miles. It is a global run for people whose voices throat cancer changed forever. People like Zio Nino, and people like Jon, who now lives with the reality that he speaks, breathes, coughs and sneezes through a hole in his neck. After surgery, he had to learn to breathe, eat and speak again. He later wrote with brutal honesty that his whole life had changed and that it was “not a nice way of living”.
Jon’s story cuts through because it does not romanticise survival. It tells the truth. The operation saved his life, but it also changed how he breathes, how he communicates, how he lives day to day, and how he sees himself. He wrote that his next fight would be his mental health. That honesty matters, because throat cancer is not just a disease of treatment plans and survival statistics. It can become a total rearrangement of ordinary life.
His advice to others was plain: if something changes in your body, get it checked. Do not ask your mates. Do not wait it out. See your doctor. For the Throat Cancer Foundation, that is exactly why awareness, prevention and earlier diagnosis matter. The earlier cancer is caught, the better the chance of less devastating treatment and kinder outcomes.
This weekend in Cardiff, Giuseppe runs for both of them.
For the uncle whose loss shaped the mission.
For Jon Organ, whose voice and life were changed forever.
And for every person living with the consequences of throat cancer.
Please support Giuseppe’s Cardiff run.
This is more than another 50K. It is part of a global run for people whose voices throat cancer changed forever.
Donate here:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/giuseppe-miuccio-11
Follow the wider Run for Voices journey here:
https://www.runforvoices.com
View the Cardiff event page here:
https://www.runforvoices.com/event-details/country-5-cardiff-wales-run-for-voices-50k-in-50-countries
If you are in or near Cardiff on Sunday 19 April, please come and support him on the day.
Follow Giuseppe on Instagram:
@giuseppe_miuccio
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