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A Jimmy Fund Clinic Patient rides the carousel with her face painted to look like a butterfly.
  • Cancer Fundraising Events, Cancer Patient Stories, Youth

Jimmy Fund Clinic family festival is a day of hope

For Leona O’Neill, 2, an encounter with gorillas—rather than an infusion chair—was the perfect way to spend a recent Sunday. Leona, who was diagnosed at eight months with a brain tumor, was one of more than 600 current and past…

  • The Jimmy Fund
  • October 20, 2022
  • Cancer Awareness

Recognizing cancer disparities and working to defy them

April marks Minority Cancer Awareness Month and Minority Health Month, opportunities to reflect on the disparities experienced in health care by historically marginalized and underserved racial and ethnic groups, and to recommit ourselves to improving equity and access to care…

  • The Jimmy Fund
  • April 25, 2022
  • Cancer Patient Stories

Family honoring wife and mother by raising funds for rare cancer

Wendy Ramsey, an active 47-year-old, started experiencing a severe decline in her energy levels in 2003. She decided to seek medical attention when her husband, Duane, and sons, Spencer and Stewart, agreed that it was unlike her to be unable…

  • The Jimmy Fund
  • April 22, 2022
  • Cancer Fundraising Events, Why I Run for Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund

Parents of pediatric cancer patients running to defy cancer with Team Beans

Team Beans was established in 2020, when Andrew Kaczynski and Rachel Ensign’s 6-month-old daughter, Francesca, was diagnosed with an atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (ATRT), one of the most malignant and aggressive brain tumors that affect infants. Both reporters in New…

  • The Jimmy Fund
  • April 14, 2022
  • Cancer Fundraising Events, Community Fundraising Events, Youth

Sisters host 4th annual ski event to benefit cancer research

Cami and Chloe Blount, two sisters from Ludlow, Vermont, were inspired to work together to plan and host a ski event at their local mountain as a tribute to their elementary school teacher who passed away from cancer. Their event,…

  • The Jimmy Fund
  • April 11, 2022
  • Cancer Fundraising Events, Why I Run for Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund

Dana-Farber employee lacing up to run virtual B.A.A. 5K®

Alison Hennig, a cancer registrar at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is going beyond her job description this spring and helping the Institute in its mission to defy cancer by running the virtual B.A.A. 5K with team Dana-Farber this April. She was…

  • The Jimmy Fund
  • April 11, 2022
  • cancer fundraising walk

Meet MacKenzie, the miracle baby

“As a breast cancer survivor, seeing my eldest daughter face cancer herself was heartbreaking,” recalls Paula Keogh, who was treated at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute nearly three decades ago. “Initially, Sarah tried to hide the fact that she had found a…

  • The Jimmy Fund
  • April 8, 2022
  • Cancer Fundraising Events, Why I Run for Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund

Dana-Farber runner trains for his sixth Falmouth Road Race to honor his late brother

Barry Cotton lost his brother, Billy, to lung cancer at the age of 59, in December 2013. A few years later, he decided to register for the ASICS Falmouth Road Race with team Dana-Farber to honor his brother’s legacy and…

  • The Jimmy Fund
  • April 7, 2022
  • Cancer Fundraising Events, Why I Run for Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund

Couple running Boston Marathon® together to defy cancer

Alfonso Carrillo and Stephany Garza, originally from Guatemala, have been married for six years. This year, they’re taking things to the next level by embarking on their first marathon together: the Boston Marathon® on April 18, as part of the…

  • The Jimmy Fund
  • April 6, 2022
  • Cancer Fundraising Events

‘Hammer Away Cancer’ is personal for Aubuchon employees

For the past few years, the Aubuchon Company based in Westminster, MA, has supported Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund with a month-long “Hammer Away Cancer” fundraising campaign in all of its stores. New this year, customers are able…

  • The Jimmy Fund
  • March 25, 2022
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