Hundreds of Central New Yorkers will be walking around with bald heads this week. A huge crowd showed up to take part in the annual St. Baldrick's event in Syracuse. Among that group were 50 brave women. Our Karen Lee introduces us to two of them.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The buzzers were busy at Kitty Hoynes in Downtown Syracuse this weekend. More than 450 people rotated onto the barber chairs. They gave a little hair in exchange for a fight against childhood cancer.

Katherine Sullivan-Burnham, or "Keene" as everyone calls her, flew in all the way from Wisconsin to get her head shaved. It's for her brother's girlfriend, Amanda Giruzzi, who's battling Hodgkin's lymphoma.

"She's got a very positive attitude and I figured this was the least I could do to show my support," said Sullivan-Burnham.

"Just to have people that want to go through it with you. It makes it so much easier. If I didn't have the support, it would be so much harder. It would be a lot more sad you know," said Giruzzi.

Shortly after our interview, Keen's chin-length hair was all gone.

"It's just hair," she said.

She may be nonchalant but her mother, however, felt a pang of emotion.

"I kept thinking oh, that's enough that's enough. But I mean she has such a pretty head, pretty face, I know it's going to work out fine," said Kathleen Sullivan, Keen's mother.

Ellen Gooley, 85, decided this would be the year she took the plunge.

"I've been down here before but not to shave my head. First-time," she said.

Gooley is doing it in memory of her son who recently passed away and also for her grandson, Colin, a cancer survivor who was diagnosed at 7 and had his leg amputated as a result.

"I think that's great that both my grandma and Aunt Mary are doing it. Takes a lot of courage for them to do it. More than us men," said Colin Gooley.

Ellen Gooley was mostly quiet as her silver locks were shaved off but when we asked her how she felt.

"Wonderful, wonderful."

Gooley, Sullivan and 48 other women proved this weekend that bald is beautiful.

The goal is to raise around $300,000 for this year's event. In total, Kitty Hoynes has managed to contribute more than a million dollars for the St. Baldrick's fundraiser.