Category Cancer Patient Stories

In late July 2022, two weeks before Sam Gold geared up for his fourth Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC), he got the unthinkable news that, at just 29 years old, he had stage II tongue cancer. This year, he will be back…

It all started in 2020, when Jenny, woke up in one morning with excruciating cramps. The pain was so severe, she was unable to get up to get dressed. She managed to schedule an appointment on the same day with…

In early 2021, the American Cancer Society released new guidelines lowering the screening age for colorectal cancer, which has been increasing in frequency in younger adults, from 50 to 45. This new guideline, paired with the pandemic delaying routine physicals,…

Growing up, whenever the girls in the Schuster family, Kimmy and Kait, would get a birthday or holiday gift of cash, they got to keep a third, save a third, and the final third went to helping someone else in…

In 2022, Julie Devaney Hogan was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma, stage 3 breast cancer and began treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. One of the things that this mother of three had to cope with during her diagnosis was the…

Zach Wall was a fighter. As his mother, Jenn, recalls: “He came out four weeks early at four pounds, so he was fighting from the start. He was always a resilient kid because he had to be.” Zach was born…