Cancer Patient Stories Archives - Page 3 of 24

Family creates legacy for dad while working to defy prostate cancer

March 20, 2023

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…

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Announcing the early retirement… of my breasts.

March 14, 2023

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…

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Be Like Zach: Family turns grief into action after son’s passing

March 7, 2023

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…

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PMC funding brings nephew-uncle pair full circle

January 26, 2023

Every so often, a story comes around that is truly full circle. This is one of those. Matthew Davids, MD, MMSc, director of clinical research in Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Division of Lymphoma, was a competitive runner while studying chemistry at…

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Donation to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute from The Max Vincze Foundation

Family foundation memorializes son and brings focus to rare cancer

January 23, 2023

“He was just a cool kid—and just getting ready to start his life.” – Suzanne Vincze, Max’s mother In May 2021, Craig and Suzanne Vincze’s son Max was studying for a final exam during his senior year at the University…

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Grateful patient hosts Jimmy FundRaiser to celebrate 20 years of survivorship

January 20, 2023

Andrea McGrath moved to Boston after completing graduate school in the late 1990s, unaware at the time of how important it would be to be in the Longwood area, close to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Unlike many other patients who would…

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Retiree’s big heart helps charities win even when you lose

January 11, 2023

Mike Rothman is a 76-year-old former Harvard Medical School Instructor in Psychiatry, serial entrepreneur and member of the Jimmy FundRaiser community. He has used his time in retirement to spearhead Big-Hearted Battles, a movement inviting people of all ages to…

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