Category Cancer Patient Stories

Patients Celebrate Pig Day: A Jimmy Fund Clinic Tradition

March 7, 2015

Seven years ago, Martha Young, Program Manager of Patient and Family Education at Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic, met a young patient who shared her same unique love for pigs. Together, they discovered the seldom-celebrated holiday, National Pig Day, and came…

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Love. They say it conquers all- but can it help conquer cancer?

February 14, 2015

Love. They say it conquers all—but can it help conquer cancer? For cancer survivor David Lash it definitely played a role. From the love of his friends, family, and fiancé during treatments, and his medical staff during a life-saving procedure,…

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Red Sox rookies bring smiles to patients at the Jimmy Fund Clinic

February 13, 2015

Nine-year-old Ethyn Yates has traveled twice to Dana-Farber from his native Australia in the past three years, and both times the Boston Red Sox have made the nearly 11,000-mile trip less scary. Yates, who had a stem cell transplant at…

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Former patient contributes design to 2014 Holiday Collection

November 29, 2014

In an art studio at his Roslindale, MA home, Bernard Manning, sketched a baby penguin and a daddy penguin carrying a tree home on a winter day as snowflakes fell onto their Santa hats. Bernard’s friends and family convinced him…

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Family finds help and hope at Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic.

November 21, 2014

Eliana Montas is an energetic, active, and happy preschooler. She loves playing outside and with her princess dolls. “Eliana never stops,” says her mom, Gloria Robles. To see Eliana singing, dancing, or with her two older brothers, one would never…

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Former patient celebrates 16th birthday with friends from the Jimmy Fund Clinic

November 8, 2014

Ten years ago, her face seemed to be everywhere. Amber DaRosa was a 6-year-old with a big smile and beautiful bald head. A 2004 photo of the young patient posing with Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was spread across…

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Patients Celebrate Halloween at Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic

October 31, 2014

While the children of Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic don’t need costumes to be considered superheroes, kids of all ages dress up for the festivities that include trick-or-treating, a pizza party, and a pumpkin-carving contest. The hospital-wide celebration begins in the…

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