Category Cancer Patient Stories

Male breast cancer patient finds inspiration at Dana-Farber

October 5, 2022

Steve Mosher was golfing with friends when he first felt a twitch during a swing. He reached down and felt a little bump, something odd he hadn’t noticed before. That incidental twinge and lump would soon lead to news he…

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Mother recalls the moment that changed her family forever

September 16, 2022

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lives of the Marzilli family were changed forever. Their 6-year-old daughter, Chloe, was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma. “It happened accidentally,” says her mother, Courtney. “I noticed one night during bedtime that she had…

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Bereavement program extends Dana-Farber’s compassionate care beyond patients

August 29, 2022

When we think of compassionate care, we are generally focused on the patient themselves: Are they being treated effectively? Do they have good quality of life? But at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, compassionate care extends beyond the patient, to their family…

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Service dog changes patient’s way of living

August 26, 2022

After complications from a brain surgery left her right side paralyzed at age 7, Hailey, a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute patient, needed support from her family to stay mobile. As she aged, the dependency on her family, specifically her mother, was…

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Pediatric cancer survivor’s mom runs to give back to Dana-Farber

August 22, 2022

Sarah Byrne is training for her fifth B.A.A. Half Marathon® with Dana-Farber’s team. She was motivated to run with Dana-Farber to honor her son Cian, who was diagnosed with stage III hepatoblastoma, a rare form of liver cancer, at age…

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Student honors friend with concert for pediatric cancer research

August 10, 2022

Ashwin Hazarika, a high school student from Columbia, Md., started thinking about opportunities to fundraise to support cancer research after his friend, Jamie, was diagnosed with pediatric sarcoma, a bone cancer. He initially planned to organize a virtual event on…

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Breast cancer patient gives back by running the ASICS Falmouth Road Race

July 29, 2022

Natalie Daverio is running her first ASICS Falmouth Road Race with Dana-Farber’s team this August. She ran the race on her own in 2021, after getting into running to stay active throughout the pandemic. That race came with a bit…

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